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Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss.

Riverside Drive, east of Downtown Cincinnati, will be completely shut down starting Monday for five weeks while construction crews work on a storm sewer…

In a release issued Monday — the day the ramps were supposed to close — the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said the Pike Street entrance ramp to I-71/75 and the exit ramp from northbound I-71/75 to Fifth Street in Covington will remain open for the time being. A new closure date is expected later this week.

Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Iron Man, based on the Marvel comics hero. The film, directed by Jon Favreau, stars Robert Downey Jr. as a billionaire weapons inventor, alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard.

Book reviewer Alan Cheuse provides his annual holiday suggestions for gift giving: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon from Random House. X Presidents by Robert Smigel and Adam McKay from Villard. The Telling, by Ursula LeGuin from Harcourt. A Dance for Emilia, by Peter S. Beagle from Roc. The Fisher King, by Paule Marshall from Scribner.Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance, CD from Rhino records. Light Action in the Caribbean, by Barry Lopez from Knopf and the recorded version from High Bridge. Nights & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, edited by Robert Irwin from Overlook. American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick from The Library of America. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, from W. W. Norton & Company. The Beatles Anthology, by The Beatles from Chronicle Books.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said he would suspend his presidential campaign and return to Washington to help deal with the nation's financial crisis. What does "suspending" the campaign entail and what has McCain's campaign done?

Alyssa Mastromonaco worked in the West Wing for six exhilarating and exhausting years. She describes that era in her new memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

Americans' life expectancy declined by nearly two years in 2020 compared to the year before, primarily because of COVID-19. The drop in life expectancy was bigger for men, and for Blacks and Latinos.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Linda Hudson, mayor of Fort Pierce, a city of 43,000 on Florida's Atlantic coast, as everyone waits to see what path Hurricane Dorian will take.

The casualties included many children, as a vessel carrying Nowruz holiday revelers capsized in the Tigris River. Authorities said the boat appeared not to have had life vests on board.