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She's known for celebrity imitations: Hillary Clinton and Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez and Bjork, and so on. Now, as she joins Saturday Night Live's full cast, she's learning what else she can do.

Israeli and Hamas negotiators are meeting in Qatar to discuss a potential ceasefire in the 10-month old Gaza war. Hamas says it doesn’t have all the hostages and some were seized by families.

Spanish authorities took the politicians into custody after Catalonia, a formerly semiautonomous region, declared independence from Spain. Catalan's former president remains in exile in Belgium.

Despite the pandemic, Census Bureau officials say they've determined it's safe enough for visits to unresponsive homes in parts of Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.

Oklahoma's top education official has made headlines for mandating Bibles in each classroom but once upon a time he was a high school teacher who enjoyed dissecting racy HBO dramas with students.

- In the Hague, the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced a low-ranking soldier to 10 years in jail for his role in the massacre of 1,200 people and finished the trial of another defendent. Gillian Sharpe reports the second trial is far more complex, with questions of guilt and innocence clouded by emotional testimony and circumstantial evidence.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on some new findings from the outer solar system and beyond. Astronomers meeting in Arizona report finding rain clouds on Jupiter, hints of oxygen in the atmosphere of Jupiter's biggest moon, and signs of yet another planet orbiting a distant star.

The hardware, also known as neural processors or neural engines, could enable personal computers to handle more AI features without relying on the cloud.

The astronauts returned from the International Space Station after their spacecraft, Resilience, set a new record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. space capsule that carried a crew.

The committee investigating the January 6th attack debuts in prime time with damning testimony; the House passes gun legislation; a threat against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Bernie Speevack of Louisville, Ky., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Democratic candidates debate tonight, with the top contenders all on one stage. Issues from healthcare and foreign policy, to who is best positioned to beat President Trump, divide the field.

In an interview with NPR, The New York Times' new executive editor, Dean Baquet, said Jill Abramson was fired because of her failed relationship with the publisher and with senior editors.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

Repeal of the health law is unlikely to succeed, but Republicans are setting their sights on some vulnerable provisions. If they succeed, it would affect the country's direction in health spending and coverage.

The British band Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 this week with its latest album.

Amazon accuses the president of interfering in the process over a personal rift with CEO Jeff Bezos. Microsoft won the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract after months of controversy.

Scientists publishing in Astrophysical Journal Letters say they've used space telescopes to record faint light from the distant planet to get a rough map of its atmosphere.

A joint Senate panel heard testimony Wednesday from military and national security officials to try to understand the military and intelligence failures during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Jan. 6 report was set to be a major boon for publishers, but a week out sales have been relatively thin compared to other blockbuster government reports.