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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the show Bel-Air, the video game Thank Goodness You’re Here, and a podcast episode about sweat.

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

The latest installment of the "Alien" series is an efficient and reasonably entertaining thriller. But dwelling too obsessively on the past won't guarantee a franchise's future.

Gaetz is in a primary fight tied to ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the latest salvo in an ongoing war. Gaetz led that ouster. Now his district encapsulates a GOP intraparty clash that fuels dysfunction on the House floor and the campaign trail.

Montana used to vote consistently purple, but now there's only one Democrat holding statewide office, three-term U.S. Senator Jon Tester. He's not exactly embracing his party this election cycle.

San Diego Central Library is launching The Swiftie Book Club.

Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.

A major expansion of the child tax credit during the height of the COVID pandemic temporarily slashed the child poverty rate in half. That is one reason why it has become a hot topic in the presidential race.

This Transgender Awareness Week discover the inspiring journey of Beau O'Neal, a 21-year-old future professional stylist embracing a genderqueer identity and challenging societal norms.

The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects that spread it to spread out. Here's what we know.