Search results for

Across the tightly-knit country music community, artists have reached to social media to express their shock and sorrow.

After the comedian and cellist met on a flight, the two struck up a friendship and decided to release an album on which Murray sings and reads American classics accompanied by a classical trio.

The inventor of the AK-47 was memorialized with a 30-foot-tall bronze statue in Moscow, but not everyone in Russia's capital city was pleased with the tribute.

The Colombia-born, Toronto-based singer beat out some of Canada's most beloved artists, winning after Polaris' unique jury system found her album La Papessa to be the country's best of the year.

Beyoncé is as much idol as human at this point — so when she (very carefully) shares, the world listens (very closely).

Frogs are unmatched in their speed and ability to catch prey. It's all about their super-soft tongue and specialized saliva, say researchers, who got saliva to test by scraping frogs' tongues.

An estimated 84 million people watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their first debate Monday, according to TV ratings data from Nielsen.

The real Al Capone. From Brooklyn kid to Chicago crime boss, a new biography gives the whole story.

Commentator Mike Pesca talks about President Trump's attack on NFL players who kneel during the national anthem and his claim about the NFL rapidly losing viewers.

Steve Inskeep talks to Secretary of State John Kerry about the growing unrest between Israelis and Palestinians. Kerry says no amount of frustration is appropriate to license any violence anywhere.

Ken Taylor — Canada's ambassador to Iran in 1979 — sheltered a group of Americans in his home in Tehran for three months before helping them escape to safety. He died on Thursday at the age of 81.

All employees of the outdoor gear retailer will be getting a paid day off on one of the most popular shopping days of the year.

Political endorsements — from Pharrell Williams to Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson — are rolling in for the 2016 presidential race. But how important are these endorsements for candidates?

House Speaker John Boehner's resignation wasn't a complete surprise, but the timing took many off guard since his announcement came only one day after the…

The bluesy, commanding improviser rose to eminence in the '50s and '60s with bands like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he played a starring role and established himself as a deft small-group composer. Walton continued to perform and record his entire life.

Aside from hearings, no action is expected this week as Congress considers President Obama's call for authorization of military strikes against Syria. Far more members are publicly undecided than openly supportive of military action at this point.

As Israeli and Palestinian officials head to Washington for their first face-to-face peace talks in more than three years, Secretary of State Kerry named a new special envoy for the peace talks: Martin Indyk, a veteran negotiator and former ambassador to Israel.

The Spanish language film Instructions Not Included was No. 5 at the box office over the Labor Day weekend. Movie studios are paying attention to Latino audiences because they buy a quarter of the movie tickets sold in the U.S.

A new strain of bird flu has sickened 82 people and killed 18 in China. But many people who have caught the H7N9 flu say they hadn't been near poultry or other birds. So what's fueling the outbreak of the virus?

The House and Senate acted quietly without a vote. Instead, they sent the measure to the president's desk by unanimous consent.