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African-American women's advantage in avoiding breast cancer has evaporated, with their rates rising to match white women's. Higher obesity rates, a risk factor for breast cancer, may be one reason.

Untested cancer drugs are often hyped by journalists, doctors and biotech firms, a survey finds. Dressing up unproved medications with shiny words can inspire false optimism among patients.

Critic Bob Mondello has been doing the Time Warp longer than anyone: He saw the Rocky Horror Show onstage in London, before it became a movie, and now he reflects on 40 years of midnight madness.

A new movie chronicles the team of journalists who uncovered the clergy sex abuse scandal in Boston. Director Tom McCarthy and former Globe editor Walter Robinson join Fresh Air to discuss Spotlight.

Venezuela's economic model has imploded. With food production, import and distribution now controlled by the government, shelves are bare. A day's hunt for groceries in Caracas can prove futile.

The prepaid debit card company, co-founded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, will compensate customers who suffered a "financial setback" due to a technical problem earlier this month.

To understand current-day political branding in Kentucky, you have to go back to the Civil War.

Director Gaspar Noe manages to make his blandest feature to date despite — or as a result of — filling almost half its running time with raw, unsimulated sex.

Bradley Cooper plays a chef who suffers no real consequences for acting like a jerk — an awfully common story in the world of movies about geniuses.

Director Alice Rohrwacher focuses an observant eye on a rural family with a daughter nearly ready to take flight.