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Vichitra Rajasingh had 80 Barbies as a kid. Living in a small town at a time when there wasn't much entertainment, she says Barbie was a source of limitless imagination. At the bakery she now runs, she bakes about half-a-dozen Barbie cakes a week. She says the dolls remind her of her grandmother, who passed away at age 87 in January and who used to surprise her by sewing outfits for her dolls.

Barbie in India: A skin color debate, a poignant poem, baked in a cake

The doll is quite popular.One bakery sells half-a-dozen Barbie cakes a week! But like Barbies everywhere, she is controversial because of skin tone and the fact that not every kid can afford her.

Carlee Russell, the Alabama nursing student who said she was kidnapped, was charged with two misdemeanors in connection with the hoax, Hoover police announced Friday.

Carlee Russell is charged with kidnapping hoax

It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are ticking up. But even if illnesses keep rising, it appears unlikely that they will hit previous summer peaks.

The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave

In July, coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and emergency room visits have inched up. Recent summers have seen a bump in COVID-19. This year's rise looks modest so far.

The site of spent nuclear fuel storage at the San Onofre nuclear power plant is shown in this photo, January 2018.

Lawsuit To Stop San Onofre Tear Down Rejected — Tentatively

A Los Angeles judge has rejected a lawsuit to stop the plant’s dismantlement. But the group filing the lawsuit says it’s not over — yet.

San Diego weekend arts events: SummerFest, paper theaters and free Shakespeare

This weekend in the arts: Bad Vibes Good Friends Music and Art Festival; free Shakespeare at Southwestern College; Tom Driscoll's tiny found sculptures; miniature toy theaters and a big celebration of chamber music — "The most intimate form of music making."

An aerial view shows damage to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory in Rocky Mount, N.C., from a tornado that struck on July 19. The plant produces many drugs used in hospitals.

Tornado damage to Pfizer factory highlights vulnerabilities of drug supply

A tornado that ripped through a Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., raised worries about shortages of medicines used in hospitals. The drugs include commonly used painkillers and anesthetics.

From left, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield and Owen Wilson in <em>Haunted Mansion.</em>

'Haunted Mansion' is a skip, but 'Talk to Me' is a real scare

Two films take on the horror of grief: While Disney's live-action comedy is neither funny nor frightening, the Australian horror-thriller about teenagers dabbling in the occult is terrifically creepy.

BabyTron, Tee Grizzley, Eminem and Danny Brown. Collage by Jackie Lay / NPR.

How Detroit and Flint became havens for rap dark horses

They don't say "Detroit Vs. Everybody" for nothing: Dismissed from the outside and splintered within, Michigan's rap cities turned scrap-or-die underdog status into a gritty aesthetic all its own.

A billboard sits in a small lake, featuring a colorful, underwater scene with a painted image of a shipwrecked VW bus at the bottom of the lake. The billboard's reflection ripples on the lake's surface.

San Diego weekend arts events: Baroque music, optimism and Prince

This weekend in the arts: art at two parks for Park Social; "Posters of Optimism" at Art Produce; Bach Collegium; Community Fest (and "Purple Rain" screening) at UC San Diego's new amphitheater; free opera for kids and more.

Tyler Childers will release a new album, <em>Rustin' in the Rain, </em>on Sept. 8. The video for the record's first single, "In Your Love," depicts a love story between two miners. Childers' friend and collaborator, the writer Silas House, says that he wanted to show that stories like this "are part of the story of Appalachia, too. These are human stories, not political stories."

Tyler Childers is back, and taking chances

The grassroots country star, whose fan base crosses lines of identity and politics, is releasing a song called "In Your Love," from a new album. Its video tells a queer, Appalachian love story.

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