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With the help of a backing band that includes Ivan Neville and Jenny Scheinman, the iconic singer-songwriter plays three songs from across her tough and uncompromising career.

Activist Bill McKibben answers his own call for topical fiction with Radio Free Vermont, a gently surreal tale about a septuagenarian troublemaker who inadvertently sparks a secession movement.

We owe our existence to little photosynthetic bacteria — but there is much more to this story, as life can only mutate and adapt when the planet offers the right conditions, says Marcelo Gleiser.

Author John Banville makes a valiant imaginative leap with Mrs. Osmond, his attempt to craft a new ending for the heroine of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, but he doesn't quite land it.

China's wine consumption has exploded in recent years. The Chinese are now the biggest foreign investors in Bordeaux, France's vaunted winemaking region. That's made some local residents uneasy.

Democrats are feeling buoyed by big wins Tuesday in Virginia while Republicans are being hobbled by a deeply unpopular president — with control of the House on the line.

Twitter has officially doubled its signature 140-character limit for all of its users. Not all users think longer is better.

Even if you haven't seen the musical, you can keep warm this November with a delightful trio of novellas set in and around the battalion commanded by Alexander Hamilton at the siege of Yorktown.

Van Etten's newly reissued 2009 debut captures a sound the singer has since left behind. But it remains radiant, universal and utterly timeless.

In this Guest DJ session with All Songs co-host Robin Hilton, Beck digs into his latest album, Colors, discusses its euphoric themes and shares some of the songs by other artists that informed it.

When guitarist Tashi Dorji hits the stage in Charlotte this weekend, he doesn’t know exactly what he’ll be playing. That’s usual for the musician, who…

The FBI is investigating one of its counterterrorism supervisors, after a woman reportedly stole his gun from an uptown Charlotte hotel room in July.The…

Republican Roy Moore's campaign has denied the allegations, but GOP leaders say if they are true, he should withdraw ahead of next month's special Senate election.

The House and Senate bills are structurally similar, but they diverge on some major policies that could be hard to reconcile before the end of the year.

A large chunk of federal funding for community health centers in North Carolina is up in the air after Congress let the September deadline come and go…

Critic Ella Taylor says Kenneth Branagh's wildly unnecessary retread of the Agatha Christie tale is "fatally tepid."

Relatively few residents have taken FEMA up on the offer, even though nearly two months since Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, some 3,000 people are living in shelters.

Researchers and manufacturers of the vaccine are trying to find a way to produce a more effective product.

Florida State comes down hard after a fraternity death. We’ll look at the ongoing problems with Greek life.

Two comedians say the famed comic invited them both to a hotel room and stripped naked, to their shock. Others say he asked to masturbate before them, or seemed to do so while on the phone with them.