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You can still enter the Tiny Desk Contest for a few more weeks, but here are some entries that have caught the eyes — and ears — of NPR Music already.

Family separation and stricter asylum laws are “immoral,” says Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. He joins us as we talk about the situation at the border.

The polish trumpet player and composer died Sunday in Warsaw at age 76. He had enjoyed a major international career in the past 20 years, particularly through his association with the ECM label.

President Donald Trump and Congress are once again on the verge of a partial federal government shutdown. If they fail to reach an agreement, it would be…

From the late '60s to the rise of Harry Potter in the late '90s, horror fiction had a hold on young readers, and there was something to scare everyone, from realistic thrillers to possessed dummies.

Here's an animal that's really, reallyold on our planet, a true survivor. But to keep going, it has been forced to move, over and over, till it has almost out of moves. The story of a bug that ran away from flowers and learned to live on ice.

Could you handle a world that looked upside down? Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of The Annals of Improbable Research, shares a case study in which the subject was made to wear vision-flipping goggles. Ten days later, the man was riding a bicycle and playing catch in the park--his only impairment the strange headgear itself.

Republicans retain hopes of retaking control of the Senate. They lost the majority in 2006, in part because of the razor-close victory of Democratic challenger Jon Tester in Montana. Now, Tester is the incumbent facing a tough challenge of his own against the state's sole member of the House.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has released a massive report looking at offshore tax havens. The project was based on a huge trove of leaked documents looking into tax shelters and involved dozens of journalists from around the world. Robert Siegel talks with Gerard Ryle director of the ICIJ about the report.

Irish novelist Edna O'Brien looks back on eight tumultuous decades in a new memoir, Country Girl. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says the book is "a generous gift to readers" but too circumspect about O'Brien's personal life — which included encounters with Samuel Beckett, Richard Burton and Paul McCartney.

The eagerly anticipated news was better than expected. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised upward its estimates of job growth in February and March.

The Obama administration is considering executive action on immigration, and it could come within weeks.

Bill Shirer brought stories of war in Europe into American homes. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ken Cuthbertson about his new book, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century.

The band might not have a permanent lead singer, but on the new album Into The Deep,the musicians show just how well they've learned to play with others.

For Black History Month, historian Peniel E. Joseph recommends books that take an unsparing look at slavery and American capitalism, with a focus on the often overlooked work of Stokely Carmichael.

It’s been eight years since Charlotte-born jazz musician Kenneth "Kenny" Carr last played before a home crowd.Not familiar with Carr?Well, let’s start…

Musicians Kristin Hersh and Vic Chesnutt were friends and tour buddies for years before his death from an overdose in 2009; Don't Suck is Hersh's haunting memoir of her lost friend and his pain.

Steve Inskeep talks to hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital about his willingness to support Donald Trump in spite of Trump's knocks on the hedge fund sector.

A leak of names from one of the world's most famous "adultery" sites, Ashley Madison, got social scientists thinking. They've recently tried to see if people who like to cheat in their marriages also have a propensity to cheat at work.

Hillary Clinton's campaign is trying to prove that business leaders, including some Republicans, favor her over businessman Donald Trump.