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Nevada's Asian population has grown very quickly. Yet Asian-American voters have the lowest turnout of any racial group. There are now efforts to increase their electoral participation.

Tropical Cyclone Winston tore through the northern coast of Fiji's main island Viti Levu, ripping the roofs off houses, flooding buildings and downing power lines and trees.

Political blogger Dru Ealons, Virginia Republican Puneet Ahluwalia, and publisher of The Federalist webmagazine Ben Domenech join Michel Martin to discuss the criticism surrounding President Obama's decision to skip Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral and the republican primary in South Carolina.

Entrance polls suggest Clinton was buoyed by women, older voters and nonwhite voters.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucuses, defeating rival Bernie Sanders. NPR's Ron Elving speaks with Michel Martin.

Right now, men singing in high voices are really popular: Think Usher, Adam Levine, Jason Derulo or The Weeknd, which is up for seven Grammys this year. NPR's Neda Ulaby tries to understand why.

North Carolinians are attacking and defending the state’s congressional districts. Lawmakers held public hearings statewide Monday in case they have to…

Former President George W. Bush is campaigning for his brother Jeb Bush for the first time this year at a rally Monday night in North Charleston, S.C.

The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia has the potential to upend the 2016 election. NPR takes a look at what signal the president might send with his choice to succeed Scalia, and how the public might react to Republican leaders vowing to not to confirm anyone.

A Catholic-Protestant initiative is bringing refugees from Lebanon and Morocco to Italy on humanitarian visas to spare them deadly sea crossings. Most are old, sick or women with young children.

The awards themselves went more or less as expected. But two performances, one from Broadway's Hamilton and one an extended medley by Kendrick Lamar, overwhelmed everything that surrounded them.

Celebrity news website TMZ operates a lot like an intelligence agency, according to a piece in The New Yorker. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Nicholas Schmidle about TMZ's reporting tactics.

Putting the five men accused of plotting the attacks on trial is a long process. On Tuesday, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, another round of seemingly endless pre-trial war court hearings gets underway.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is in Cuba to sign a bi-lateral agreement that will allow commercial airline service between the two countries for the first time in decades.

The glitch caused one Toledo station to drop its price to historic lows. The station across the street responded by lowering its prices. For three hours drivers filled up their tanks for pennies.

The experience depicted in "Formation" and the culture that Mardi Gras stirs to life overlap and refute each other and mix in a way that IRL New Orleanians can hate and love all at once.

Like its namesake mixture of flour, water, and yeast, “Dough” is a film with a simple story that rises to transform itself into something wonderful. Nat…

Despite their political differences, the late Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were lifelong friends.

Dr. Howard Fields, who has spent much of his career working with chronic pain patients, believes many are actually undertreated.

The deployment of anti-aircraft missiles escalates tensions in the region. The U.S. insists that the airspace and waters of the region remain open to international navigation.