Neda Ulabi

Officials at the Louvre these days complain about over-attendance.

But that does not stop them from making slick, promotional YouTube videos about its exquisite restorations of old master paintings.

Other most popular museums include the Vatican Museum at number two and the National Museum of Korea in Seoul at number three.

Major art museums in East Asia have seen a notable spike in attendance, including in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

But in the U.S., museum attendance is shakier.

For example, wildfires and government shutdowns last year adversely affected attendance at many museums in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Nada Ulabi, NPR News.

Sixty-five television plotlines dealt with abortion in 2025.

Only three, including The Pit on HBO, brought up abortion pills as a way to end a pregnancy, even though that's the most common method in the United States.

The Pit was also one of the few contemporary shows that depicted how hard getting an abortion can be.

The abortion on-screen report comes from a research program at the University of California, San Francisco.

It says it found a significant rise in television shows that depict abortions as shameful, as well as a drop in abortion plotlines generally.

Netta Ulibi, NPR News.

Confessions of a Shopaholic was made into a movie in 2009.

The main character at first prefers shopping to men.

The writer, whose real name was Madeline Wickham, was educated at Oxford University.

She worked for a while as a finance reporter.

She was interested in and concerned about young women's relationships with money as well as the opposite sex.

Kinsella was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022.

She was 55 years old.