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Spirit Airlines announced over the weekend it would stop flying following years of financial struggles. The ultra-low-cost carrier wanted a $500 million federal bailout from the Trump administration.

To celebrate Jaws, this week WNYC's Radiolab is running a series called "Swimming in the Shadows."

Producer Harvey Weinstein has thrown his support behind the black-and-white, nearly silent romance film The Artist. "Sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects," he says.

Rev. Al Sharpton's past work for the FBI is under new scrutiny. On Monday, the website The Smoking Gun published documents that it claims detail Sharpton's work as a confidential informant during mafia investigations in the 1980s. Sharpton admits recording conversations with alleged mobsters for the FBI, but he denies doing anything wrong.

The week-long manhunt for ex-L.A. police officer Christopher Dorner, recently led to a cabin in Big Bear, which, after an exchange of gunfire, burst into flames, leaving a body inside. Host Neal Conan discusses law enforcement tactics employed and how social media was used during the search.

Here are the honorable mentions from this year's Student Podcast Challenge, chosen from nearly 2,000 entries.

With Nikki Haley's announcement she was ending her campaign, only former President Donald Trump remains as a 2024 GOP presidential candidate. Here's a look at the once-deep primary field.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller about what the administration plans to accomplish in the early days of his second term.

The WNO is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.

Beyoncé won four prizes to become the artist with the most Grammys in history, but the night's biggest prizes went to Harry Styles, Lizzo and Bonnie Raitt.

Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped foil a plot to assassinate then Sen. Barack Obama. Moore explains how hate groups are growing.

Lithgow, 80, plays an intelligence agent in the FX action series The Old Man, and he's currently starring in the Broadway production of Giant, about a troubling side of children's author Roald Dahl.

Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players, like Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens, about creating community and reclaiming an instrument that's historically already theirs.

The sinking of the Titanic, the Depression, World Wars I and II and the civil rights movement, and the moving songs that arise from the sacred music tradition.

On this edition of All Songs Considered we settle into the new NPR Music offices, fumble around in the studio and eventually figure things out well enough to share some great new music.

Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. When Wagner visited us, he came alone, with just a guitar and a good-natured sense of humor.

The modern jazz star returns to his alma mater, band in tow, for a live concert webcast.

The musical polymath's new album, which features collaborations with Pharrell, Chris Martin, Sky Ferreira and more, is due out November 22.

The aftermath of the controversial shooting went viral as it was streamed live on Facebook by the Castile's girlfriend.

Lowe's recorded profits in the fourth quarter despite a red-hot housing market.Shares fell 8 percent before the opening bell as healthy same-store sales…