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On his long-awaited major-label LP, the Chicago MC's personal pain becomes epiphany.

An FEC ruling issued this week allows lawmakers to use campaign money for home security upgrades. It comes in the wake of Rep. Steve Scalise being shot at a baseball practice.

Born as Jean-Philippe Smet during World War II in occupied Paris, Hallyday latched on to American-style rock 'n roll in the 1960s and went on to sell 100 million albums over five decades.

Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.

The best new albums out this week include the latest from psych-pop mainstays The Flaming Lips, singer Freya Ridings' stunning debut full-length, Houston rapper Maxo Kream and more.

The state house unanimously passed a spending bill Wednesday, but it wasn't the two-year budget plan vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper late last month.

From Afrika Bambaataa to Public Enemy and beyond, hip-hop has long been a culture to which young urban Muslims around the world can relate.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the 2013 class of nominees. Sixteen acts have made the cut, and the run the gamut from 90s grunge gods Nirvana and rapper LL Cool J to singer Linda Ronstadt and folk singer Cat Stevens — now known as Yusuf Islam.

More than 100 years ago, long before remote-controlled drones, a photographer used kites to capture aerial panoramic photographs.

The Freedom Singers, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez were some of the people who provided the soundtrack at the March on Washington. The Freedom Singers' Rutha Mae Harris tells host Michel Martin why the civil rights movement couldn't exist without music.

Last year's Tiny Desk Contest winner releases its first major label single, "Smoke.Netflix.Chill," a song about a friendship that's falling apart.

"We have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this. Regardless of the politics," President Obama says in his weekly address.

South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, rattled off the death toll during a talk Tuesday. But the CIA and Pentagon have not released official figures.

Now that Facebook is following Apple, Microsoft and Google into the mobile device business, others must surely be on the way. Imagine what a LinkedIn phone, a Yahoo phone or even an NPR phone might do for you.

http://66.225.205.104/CM20100625.mp3We'll soon be celebrating our nation's freedom with 4th of July festivities. WFAE commentator Sally Phillips explains…

While most baseball players come to the knuckleball after all else fails, one youngster has caught the media's attention by adopting the pitch early on. It's a unique story that could also bring historic change to the game.

Also: Ron Paul is writing a book; Patricia Cornwell wins a $50.9 million lawsuit; and Kelly Clarkson is not pleased.

The two makers of HPV vaccines have agreed to lower the prices for their vaccines to less than $5 a shot for low-income countries. The cheaper vaccine may make it easier to vaccinate girls in places where the risk of death from cervical cancer is greatest.

Starting in 1959 and for decades after, he recorded some of country's greatest songs, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Jones was 81.

The kidnapping and murder of the 6-year-old, who vanished on his way to school, focused national attention on child abduction cases.