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In Philadelphia, fans gathered in the streets to watch the World Cup Championship. Afterwards ... well, the huge TV screen was set up anyway. Why leave? Why not stay and re-watch the Super Bowl?

The press conference with visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinistö comes as House Democrats are threatening a fresh subpoena for White House documents relating to the growing Ukraine scandal.

Writer-director Roman Coppola could watch Woody Allen's Stardust Memories a million times. "It's a film that is endlessly imaginative and has wonderful surprises at every corner," he says.

While a significant portion of the Super Bowl watching audience are around for the ads, it's not just the TV-watching audience to which those ads are geared. Here's a few notable ads to watch Sunday.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Alice in Borderland Season 2, and the films Aftersun, After Yang and Jeanne Dielman.

Media played a significant role in organizing the protests that spread like wildfire across the Middle East in 2011. But as Islamists put a stake in the…

Linda Wertheimer talks wtih Vikram Parekh, Researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch about Human Rights Watch's lastest report, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, which gives eye witness accounts of a massacre in January in the central highlands of Afghanistan, as well as new evidence related to an earlier massacre last May. During both events, the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group, previously targeted by Taliban forces for abuse. Afghan humanitarian aid workers were also killed.

The biggest thing on broadcast TV this fall is the NFL. It's beating the shiny new network shows and, get this, 13 of the top 15 broadcasts this fall were NFL games — the other two were Two and a Half Men. The NFL is killing on cable, too. AMC's The Walking Dead shattered records for a cable drama this year, with had an audience of more than 7 million viewers for its premiere. But another cable series that nearly doubles that number week in and week out is ESPN's Monday Night Football, averaging nearly 14 million viewers per game. It's not news that the NFL rocks the other sports in TV ratings, but for the past few years its ratings dominance has spread to all of TV. So why the rise? Are more women watching? Is it because it looks good in HD? Maybe it's because sports are made to be watched live?

NPR's Life Kit team shares advice on the question: Which film should I watch next? Host Andrew Limbong talks to NPR's Bob Mondello and Devika Girish, who writes reviews for The New York Times.

People watch 1 billion hours of video every day on YouTube. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about YouTube's impact on society.

The World Cup gets underway next week and millions will pack huge stadiums to watch. Public health officials will be watching too, only they're looking for germs that could spread at these matches!

With its flashy swagger and quotable one-liners, Empire, the Fox series about a black music label, has become a cultural phenomenon. A watch party in D.C., had just as much.