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Israel is gauging the Russian airstrikes in Syria by staying in touch with Russian officials and seeking a manageable war next door.

Charlotte Mecklenburg School leaders hope to get a bond referendum on the ballot soon. This week they laid out about $2 billion worth of building,…

Jewish men and women turning 52 Monday are also having their 13th leap year birthday, finally getting a chance to celebrate their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. NPR takes a look at how they are celebrating.

Both Sides Of The Sky culls music from sessions recorded after 1968's Electric Ladyland.

The D.C. public school chancellor resigned amid ongoing graduation issues and under pressure after news emerged that he had improperly transferred his child from one highly desired school to another.

The late-night host who reigned for 33 years before his retirement in 2015, received the award in a star-studded Kennedy Center event.

An unseen force keeps patrons from leaving a dinner party. It's the premise of a 1962 surrealist film — and the basis of British composer Thomas Adès' latest opera.

NPR's Scott Simon has a story this week about something that doesn't make the news much these days: a private and unscripted act of kindness on the streets of Washington, D.C.

The cellist makes meditative, sometimes disorienting music with pedals, loops, sine tones and an expansive imagination.

The Aces' full-length debut is a pop confectionery, and fit to be blasted from car stereos, but there's substance to its sweetness

A production of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera in New York's Lower East Side marks the anniversary of one of America's deadliest industrial accidents.

Eavesdrop on a beautiful recital of German songs from fin de siècle Vienna, when music was transitioning from the swells of romanticism to the uncharted waters of modernism.

A Southern town, a heapin' helpin' of heartbreak, a shot at redemption and an adorable tyke: Writer-director Bethany Ashton Wolf's romantic drama never complicates or deepens its rote story.

The French chef renounced his much-coveted Michelin stars to forge his own way. "I want to do something different that will be three-star in my heart," he told The Guardian.

The Trump administration is talking tough tariffs on imported steel. Will that make America great again?

Major League Soccer executives will be in Charlotte and Raleigh next week to review competing bids for new franchises and gauge community support for the…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are hosting their Japanese counterparts as tensions rise with North Korea.

The South African guitarist and vocalist was best known in the U.S. for his collaboration with Paul Simon on the iconic album Graceland-- but at home, he was a jazz fusion star.

The former Cocteau Twins bassist has spent the past two decades releasing albums by other artists on his label Bella Union. He's back now with his own music, including a new song with Marissa Nadler.

President Trump's pick for the next head of NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., will have his Senate nomination hearing on Wednesday. He's been controversial because of his views on climate change.