Jazz Night shines a light on the artistry and activism of pianist and singer Hazel Scott, and the efforts to recover her legacy.
In addition to cost and access, there are other factors of daily life that keep many women from getting screened for breast cancer, research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.
As the U.S. and Japan tighten their alliance and strengthen their military presence in the country's southwest Okinawan islands near China, Okinawa's long-running peace movement is in difficulty.
Norfolk Southern agrees to a $600 million settlement of a class lawsuit related to its fiery train derailment that occurred in Eastern Ohio just over a year ago.
In the finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, characters from previous seasons testify to Larry David's selfish behavior. This mirrors the last episode of Seinfeld, which David helped create.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Van Reybrouck about Revolusi, his new book about how Indonesia gained independence and paved the way for the global decolonization movement.
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Karen Walker, who prosecuted the cases against the parents of a mass school shooter. James and Jennifer Crumbley were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.
Congress is back after a two week recess with an impeachment trial and threats to Speaker Mike Johnson's job.
Three Rwandans under the age of 25 — Ornella Ineza, Kelvin Rwihimba, and Crispin Iradukunda — reflect on what it's like to grow up in a country that's been shaped by a genocide.
The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
Young men and women are politically drifting apart across the developed world. The growing political gender divide in South Korea is making experts worried about the country's future.
The number of trucks delivering food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza has surged in the past 24 hours. Distribution remains a difficult challenge.
In the U.K., Muslim politicians are getting verbal abuse. Many worry the government's new "extremism" definition targets them. Watching Gaza, it's an especially difficult Ramadan.
Wild birds have some of the most complicated sibling relationships around, with everything from murder to long-term alliances.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jean-Martin Bauer of the World Food Programme about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
Many of us don't have the opportunity to handpick our neighbors. We buy or rent a place in a neighborhood with good schools or an easy commute.
Some of us become friends with those who live nearby, others of us never talk to our neighbors at all. For most though, we co-exist.
In the midst of a brutal civil war, neighbors killed their neighbors simply because of who they were.
Thirty years ago this month, that wasn't the case in Rwanda.
We visit a Rwandan village where... Читать дальше...
Understandably, a movie about the man who steered the development of atomic bombs is seen differently in a country where some 200,000 people were killed by those bombs. "Oppenheimer" opened in Japan 8 months after premiering in the U.S. Our reporter talks to movie goers in Nagasaki, Japan.
Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.
Jurors will be asked to identify the the news and social media programs they use, podcasts they listen to and if they have supported or been a member of white supremacist and extremist groups.
Shriver's new novel is one of her best. It takes place in an alternative America, where the last acceptable bias — discrimination against people considered not so smart — is being stamped out.
Both Crumbleys were convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter over the 2021 shooting at Michigan's Oxford High School carried out by their son, Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time.
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an old law from the 1860s can stand in the state, outlawing nearly all abortions.
The brother duo perform a blissed-out set recorded at last year's AMERICANAFEST in Nashville.
Norfolk Southern has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio in early 2023.
Author and podcast host Amanda Montell says our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that stokes our innate tendency to believe conspiracy theories and mysticism.
