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A judge will sentence Guy Reffitt, the first Jan. 6 defendant to be convicted by a jury. The DOJ wants him to get 15 years, including an enhancement for terrorism; he's asking for two years.

The new NPR podcast debuts Friday. It tells the story of Sergeant Josh Abate, who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 along with two of his fellow Marines.

The United Nations today sent its top humanitarian official, John Holmes, to Sri Lanka to push for more protection for civilians trapped in the island's war zone. The UN estimates nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed there in the last three months. The conventional war now appears to be in its final stages. But does that mean the island's civil conflict is finally at an end? NPR's South Asia Correspondent Philip Reeves reports.

In her new documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” director Laura Poitras examines both the life of photographer Nan Goldin and the origins of America’s opioid epidemic. Nathan Weinbender says the disparate threads come together in ways both surprising and deeply moving.

It’s been out for a week, and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is already a cultural phenomenon and a box office champion. Nathan Weinbender unboxes the summer’s biggest movie, which turns out to be a sharp social critique AND a bright, bold comic fantasy.

“Love Lies Bleeding” is violent, lurid and full of shocking twists. It’s also disarmingly weird in a way that, Nathan Weinbender says, will either thrill you or annoy you.

You never know what you’re going to get with M. Night Shyamalan. The prolific writer-director is back with “Trap,” a goofy potboiler that Nathan Weinbender says starts out with a bang but peters out before it’s done.

Now on Netflix, “Rebel Ridge” is about a small town, a Marine, some cash and a corrupt sheriff. But it’s way more complicated than that. Nathan Weinbender says this is a solid thriller that also works as a portrait of systemic corruption in America.

The Iranian-German co-production “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is currently nominated for the Best International Film Oscar. It has a turbulent making-of story, but Nathan Weinbender says the movie itself is just as intense and impossible to look away from.

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett star in the espionage thriller “Black Bag,” Steven Soderbergh’s second feature of 2025. Nathan Weinbender says it’s an entertaining genre exercise and a surprising domestic comedy about work-life balance.