In this edition of news today:
In the WNBA Finals, Las Vegas Aces sweep Phoenix Mercury and move to a second championship. NPR’s Dana Jacobson reports.
Diane Keaton, who remained one of Hollywood’s quirkiest and most beloved actors decades after her Academy Award-winning turn in Annie Hall, has died at age 79. She was also a prolific director and writer.
A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant killed 16 people, leaving no survivors. Authorities say they’re still trying to figure out why the plant exploded.
As National Coming Out Day approaches, we’re asking NPR readers how they told their family members and friends that they were LGBTQ. Also, an AI has built its own religion and counts tech billionaires among its followers. It now wants legal rights. And more. All of this and more on the NPR news agenda for today. Oct. 11, 2025.
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