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A new report finds some climate impacts are already irreversible and will last for many decades to come. It calls for far more money to help countries prepare for the growing risks they face.

Olivia Rodrigo topped the Billboard charts in 2021. Her success is part of a larger trend of young women and people of color leading a resurgence of angry pop-punk.

"Santa, please bring ammo," Rep. Thomas Massie wrote as he posted the image of him and his family posing with guns in front of a Christmas tree.

Ahead of the season 3 finale, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with actress J. Smith-Cameron about her portrayal of Gerri Kellman on the hit HBO series Succession.

Nominees for the 64th Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday. In the top categories are some familiar names such as Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Billie Eilish, and newer artists like Olivia Rodrigo.

Broadhursts Bookshop in Southport, England, sold the book about William the Conqueror that had sat on the shelf for decades. The store's tweet about the sale has inspired thousands of replies.

Migrant workers came from around the world to build Panama's transportation systems. They brought, among other things, music with them. Dozens of bands that came to be known collectively as Combos Nacionales married musical styles as distinct and distant as New York boogaloo, Cuban descarga and Trinidadian Calypso. Panama: Latin, Calypso and Funk at the Isthmus charts this uniquely Panamanian hybrid.

Rhode Island was the first state to legalize sites where people can bring illegal drugs and use them while being monitored for overdose. Local communities still need to be convinced to host one.

Randy Weaver, who was at the center of a standoff with federal agents decades ago that continues to inspire antigovernment and paramilitary sentiment on the far right, has died at age 74.

This spring, a small farm workers' group won a surprising victory against the world's second-largest fast-food company. The parent company of Taco Bell agreed to pay tomato pickers in Immokalee, Fla., higher wages and -- perhaps more significantly -- to lead a push for more protections for migrant workers.

Feedback-worshiping drone, tranced-out occult rock, gamelan music played by elephants — Aquarius Records embodied the idea that you can always dig deeper for weirder, louder music.

Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head more than a decade ago, but this week threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park as part of its Gun Violence Awareness Day.

With votes from Gramophone magazine critics and listeners of 15 classical radio networks, Fischer has topped the world's largest classical-music poll, receiving the 2007 Classic FM Gramophone Artist of the Year award.

One of the fathers of rock 'n' roll, Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in Mississippi and grew up in Chicago, where he played guitar on street corners before being discovered by Chess Records. Diddley leaves behind a sound that helped build a musical movement.

The visit comes less than two weeks after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, which prompted days of threatening military exercises by China.

In any ongoing quest for mind-blowing music, each year brings an assortment of new left-field discoveries. KEXP's Kevin Cole offers up a selection of 13 excellent under-the-radar CDs, any of which could end up being your favorite of the year.

On her bustling third album, the former Carolina Chocolate Drops member maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora while gently taking Anglocentricism (and capitalism) down a notch.

The gospel-inspired soul singer has a knack for imbuing narrative tropes with new meaning, transforming them into stories that couldn't be anyone else's.

On his fourth solo album, the Americana singer-songwriter considers the tilted fulcrum of a dissolving marriage in order to confront the allure and the cost of restlessness.

What makes the band's second album truly crackle is the way Sadie Dupuis' words interlock with her band's barreling energy and turn-on-a-dime arrangements.