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One is an Olympic figure skater and the other is a video game developer. The game developer has been getting a lot of tweets this week.

The FX TV show "Fargo" will air its Season 2 finale Monday night. NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans weighs in on how the show has garnered such success.

As the story goes, pardoning a turkey dates back to President Lincoln, when his young son Tad begged his father to let the White House Thanksgiving meal live. On Wednesday, Obama pardons Cobbler and Gobbler.

Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power...right? As part of our summer series, You 2.0, we try to understand why we stick our heads in the sand.

A man proposing to his girlfriend at a Yankees game, dropped the ring. He eventually found it, and she said yes. A jogger in Central Park stopped to be in wedding photos. The jogger was Tom Hanks.

Polygamy is fairly common in Kenya but one forthcoming marriage is turning that custom on its head. A Kenyan woman not wanting to choose between the two men she loves, decided she will marry both of them. The men have agreed, and the trio even signed a contract to "set boundaries and keep the peace."

Farai Chideya concludes her two-part conversation with author Tananarive Due. Due talks about the inspiration for her civil rights memoir Freedom in the Family, which she co-authored with her mother.

In the second of two reports on the reinvention of the nursing home, NPR's Joseph Shapiro visits Tupelo, Miss., to see if the way a nursing home looks can change the way people live. The experiment is based on a concept called the Green House Project.

This is the health news of the week for residents in Immokalee.

NPR's Jordana Hochman is travelling through Liberia and is sending in dispatches from her trip. Today, the lasting tension between native Liberians and the Americo-Liberians, those descended from freed slaves who settled there in the 19th century.