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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Maureen Mahon, professor and chair of New York University's music department, about Turner's legacy. Her raspy voice and electric stage moves influenced many performers.

Isabel Allende's latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.

Dedicated crafters often leave projects unfinished when they die. Now, there's a group that pairs those half-knitted hats and partly-stitched quilts with new crafters who can finish them for families.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with WBUR's Walter Wuthmann about updates in the search for missing Titan submersible.

The artist's first album as a lead for Blue Note grew from a jarring realignment in her personal life. On The Omnichord Real Book, she finds ways to embrace jazz without taking on its baggage.

The so called "march for justice" on Moscow has been halted, and Wagner mercenaries are returning to base, their leader exiled - we get the latest from our correspondent in Russia's capital.

The rebellious leader of the Wagner mercenary group said he had ordered his troops back to base, but analysts say the serious challenge to the Russian president will diminish his authority.

Getty has given grants to photographers who focused on child brides in India, family members who have been out of touch and youth who have been incarcerated.

Hacienda San Pedro had harvested just 2 percent of its beans before Hurricane Maria blasted through. The ripple effects will continue — it is expecting to run out of beans in December.

Fierce fighting has spread outside Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and across the country, as the forces of two warring military leaders battle for control.

The Commissioner of the National Hockey League tackles the league's efforts to increase diversity, hockey's culture of fighting and potential links between the game and the brain disease CTE.

Zachary Terwilliger started at the Justice Department as an intern in high school. Now, he is the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in the intelligence community's backyard.

Public pressure, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, put pressure on successive German governments to end their use. Germany began winding down the plants Saturday.

City and county officials are weighing a proposal to build a mega sports complex at the River District Development Project near the airport. This, and more, in this week's BizWorthy.

After decades on the sidelines, the medical trade group is taking a more aggressive stance by fighting two North Dakota laws it says interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.

With a historic snowpack starting to melt, increasing flood concerns in central California, there's an effort under way to capture as much of the water as possible in underground aquifers.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs ended talks in Japan with a joint statement pledging to bring inflation under control while aiding those suffering the most from surging prices.

Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok. Gov. Greg Gianforte has said he is concerned about people's user data being compromised by the Chinese government.

In a scathing report, the Justice Department detailed systemic abuse within the Minneapolis Police Department, noting particular bias against Black and Native American residents.

President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are due to meet Thursday at the White House, where they'll likely focus on the war in Ukraine and NATO.