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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Child Trends researcher Jennifer Manlove about the significant decline in teenage pregnancies in the United States.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Nancy Tartaglione, of Deadline.com, about the pull of international box offices for films like the Avatar sequel "The Way of Water" has made nearly $1 billion overseas.

After fifteen rounds of voting, House Republicans finally got Kevin McCarthy as their House Speaker. We look at what that means moving forward, in taking on the work that Congress must undertake.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz and this week's puzzle winner Susan Gilmore of West Hartford, Conn.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with UCLA Professor Steve Bank about why employees must spend all the money in their Flexible Spending Accounts by a certain date or forfeit the balance to their employers.

The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the latest on Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin and what his accident tells us about the violent nature of football.

The first NFL game since Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field will take place this afternoon. We talk to members of one of the teams playing, the Kansas City Chiefs.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Andy Yan at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, about a new two-year ban prohibiting some foreigners from buying property in Canada.

Republican Kevin McCarthy finally succeeded on the 15th vote to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. But he had to make numerous concessions along the way.