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Attorney General William Barr's decision to deny bond hearings to asylum-seekers is the latest twist in a long legal battle. Immigrant rights advocates recently won a big victory in federal court.

Older adults struggle with loneliness. Teens and kids are facing new levels of poor mental health. Organizations are connecting these two groups -- and both elders and young people are benefiting.

The library at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is closing after a number of disruptions and reductions by the Trump administration. Staff members say it's degrading NASA's mission.

Kitty Garner, founder of the nonprofit The LoveBolt, has died. She's described as a true renaissance woman. A few of close friends shared a few kind words about her.

Pastors, imams, rabbis and clergy known were present at polling sites as “poll chaplains” and “peacekeepers."

Southern segregationists resented the Freedom Riders who came by bus to protest Jim Crow laws. So in 1962, they tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.

Infantryman Robert Kotlowitz was one of only three in his platoon to survive an ill-advised attack on the Germans. Robert Williams served with the Tuskegee Airmen. Originally broadcast in '99 and '95.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has charged a 25-year-old man with the 2014 slaying of a man in what was then described as a drug-related…

Three of Sunday nights’ Grammy Award winners have North Carolina connections.UNC-Chapel Hill history professor William Ferris was among the winners for…

Don Williams and Louisa Jagger are on a mission to help people save treasured family heirlooms... be they silverware, photos or security blankets. They're the authors of Saving Stuff: How to Care for and Preserve Your Collectibles, Heirlooms, and Other Prized Possessions.

For fans of Neko Case, Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams.

Graham moves to ban abortion nationally. The Democrats investigate Barr.

Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text.

In this episode of Jazz Night in America, we get a taste of Lloyd's collaboration with Lucinda Williams, along with choice moments from his recent appearances at Lincoln Center.

Country music impresario, BUDDY KILLEN. For many years KILLEN was the head of Tree International, Nashville's leading music publisher, writer and producer. KILLEN once played bass in Hank Williams' band for ten dollars a night; in 1989 he sold Tree to Sony for 50 million. He's worked with just about every star in the Country firmament: Elvis Presley (Tree published "Heartbreak Hotel"), Dolly Parton (KILLEN signed her when she was fourteen), Willie Nelson (was a songwriter for Tree); and many classics in the Country cannon: "King of the Road", "Okie from Muskogee" and the immortal "D-I-V-O-R-C-E". KILLEN's new autobiography is "By the Seat of My Pants" (Simon & Sch

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY has just written a new political satire, "Thank you for Smoking" (Random), which pokes fun at everything and everyone associated with the tobacco industry-- from anti-smoking advocates to tobacco company executives. BUCKLEY was George Bush's speechwriter from 1981-1983 when Bush served as Vice President. The son of William F. Buckley, he is the author of other political and social satires, including "The White House Mess" and "Wet Work." He is the editor of "Forbes FYI" magazine.

Nightmare Alley director Guillermo del Toro says his future was set the first time he saw Frankenstein. Science writer Florence Williams examines the scientific reason why breaking up feels so rotten.

Secretary of State Colin Powell's tenure at the State Department will end as soon as his replacement, Condoleezza Rice, is confirmed -- possibly within a week. NPR's Juan Williams spoke with Powell about his legacy and U.S. foreign policy.

James Avery is best known as Philip Banks, the wealthy uncle of Will Smith's character in the 1990s TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. But his work encompasses a broader range, from movies to voicing animation to his latest role in a California stage production of William Shakespeare's Othello.

William Bolcom's searing opera, based on a play by Arthur Miller, is a sometimes bleak yet always vivid drama set in the Italian-American community of Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the 1950s.