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Taraf de Caliu are the last generation of "lăutari" that carry on this authentic traditional music from southern Romania, the music that defined them as one of the best gypsy bands in the world.

Sex, smuggling, cigarettes and murder. Now we're talking opera. Georges Bizet's popular Carmen is an opera-goer's guilty pleasure, with plenty of great tunes. Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, still early in her career, stars in a production from La Scala, in Milan.

On this edition of World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Jules Massenet's Manon in a production from the Vienna State Opera. It features a brilliant performance by soprano Diana Damrau as Manon, with tenor Ramon Vargas as Des Grieux.

Though it's Faust who sold his soul to the devil, the innocent Marguerite takes the fall in this classic story dating back to the 1400s. Hear the entire opera and follow along with the libretto in this production from Opera Carolina.

The Food and Drug Administration found dead and live rodents, and their feces and urine. More than 1,200 rodents were exterminated after fumigation at the warehouse, which serves more than 400 stores.

In this installment of our Weekly Innovation series, a bedding set that promises to solve the problem of having to realign or untangle bunched up sheets in the morning. The designers of Smart Bedding say it's a daily timesaver.

Japanese electronics makers Sony and Panasonic are scaling back when it comes to flat-screen TVs. Bested by their Korean counterparts, the companies recently announced they are shrinking their money-losing operations. Analyst and investors are wondering why they didn't do it sooner.

North Carolina's hemp industry would become permanently exempt from the state's controlled substances law in omnibus agricultural legislation approved unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday.

Astronomers have discovered a clump of 73 quasars that spans four billion light years at its widest point--that's like 40,000 Milky Way galaxies lined end-to-end. The only problem? Theory says the quasar cluster is too big to exist. Astronomer Gerard Williger and reporter Ron Cowen discuss this cosmological oddity, and other news about the cosmos.

Progressive Democrats acknowledged that many of their priorities would have to be scaled back, but called the White House meeting "productive."

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.

It’s been more than 1,000 days since the legislature passed a state budget, but sweeping federal health care changes may force North Carolina to rethink how it funds Medicaid, food assistance and other health programs.

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Defense, answered questions Tuesday in a public hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

On Sunday night, social media will overflow with commentary on the night's winners, snubs and baffling moments. But for now, we can take a few educated stabs at the headlines and outrages that await.

With hip-hop shut out of top categories in a year defined by the genre's most urgent voices, the Recording Academy mirrors America's racialized politics.

Season two of Mindy Kaling's "steamy teen romance" gives Asian American characters their own complicated stories of navigating love, grief and even a new frenemy.

For most voters, school board races will be at the bottom of their ballots at Tuesday’s primary election. In many places, those races are getting more attention than usual. That has put a premium on just how those candidates appear on the ballot.

The Senate is preparing to vote on two proposals to reopen the government, but neither are expected to pass. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., about how he sees the shutdown ending.

Capcom's remake of its classic 1999 survival horror game is gorgeous — taking full advantage of new technologies not available then. But it suffers from more muted scares and a lack of replayability.