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"Moon Trees" are starting to grow on Earth. They got that name because as seeds they spent some time in space.

Voting ends Tuesday in Virginia, where a special ballot measure about redistricting could play a key role in determining which party wins the U.S. House this fall.

More Republicans are calling for an investigation after a second U.S. citizen was shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

Plas Johnson, the saxophonist behind "The Pink Panther Theme," has died at 94. We remember the Hollywood session legend whose playing shaped decades of music.

A group of students, parents and energy experts is making the financial case for going green in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

World record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum died on Sunday. Kenya has been celebrating the life and explosive career of the 24-year old marathon runner.

The only place Billie Holiday received vocal instruction also gave her bad-girl cred and an ambitious spiritual discipline. It was The House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, a Catholic convent.

The debate over gun control continues to dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate doubles the number of African-American members by welcoming William 'Mo" Cowan. He replaces John Kerry. Host Michel Martin talks politics with Republican strategist Ron Christie and Keli Goff, political correspondent for The Root.

Moser is a central figure within the Austin music scene, transforming from fan to groupie to writer to cultural historian. As her life hits its sunset, she's saying good-bye.

Here at the midpoint of 2021, these are the two dozen or so albums NPR Music's staff will be carrying as they step back out into the world.

The way we elect a president necessitates that the candidates have to campaign only in the so-called "battleground states." Here is the list of the 10 states that will determine the November winner, and how they voted in the past.

For years, E.L. Doctorow thought that Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march to the sea near the end of the Civil War would make for a gripping work of fiction.

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to report Aubri Juhasz about the WHYY podcast Schooled.

In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.

The Miami-born, Cuban American musician, who died Dec. 8, played music that embraced Latin rhythms, roots, rock 'n' roll, and country. Originally broadcast in 1995.

Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.

Limited national data suggest teachers are plentiful, but many districts that serve some of the most vulnerable students would beg to differ.

Duvall, who died July 11, starred in The Shining, Popeye and numerous Robert Altman films. She also produced the award-winning Faerie Tale Theatre. Originally broadcast in 1992.

Fifty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg leaked classified information about U.S. policy in Vietnam to the press. We listen back to archival interviews with Ellsberg and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post.