Mallory Yu

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: TikTok Pride and Prejudice, K-pop star G-Dragon, a Disney cover album, and Astro Bot on the PS5.

Cynthia Erivo says being different had "something to do with" her role as Elphaba in 'Wicked: Part 1.'

"Uncuffed" is a prison radio training program and a podcast where people in California prisons tell their stories.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with elections analyst Tamara Sartania in Georgia's capital, Tblisi, to talk about what's at stake in the upcoming election and struggle for power.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with D.C. AG Brian Schwalb about the new lawsuit against TikTok alleging that the social media platform causes harm to kids and operates in an illegal virtual economy.

A Georgia 14-year-old has been charged with four counts of murder after a fatal shooting at his high school. Last year, authorities interviewed him over online threats to commit a shooting.

An excerpt from "The Fifth Branch," a three-part series by Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project examining how Durham's alternative crisis response program keeps its unarmed responders safe.

Garland Carr, featured on the podcast Track Change, was recently released from prison. NPR's Adrian Ma talks to him about how he's adjusting to life on the outside.

NPR’s Embedded podcast has a new series about sex testing in elite sports with CBC in Canada. It's called Tested.

Ukraine is on day four of a surprise attack on Kursk, some 330 miles south of Moscow. Videos are emerging of burned out Russian vehicles, Russians surrendering and long lines of Russian cars fleeing.