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Classical music is a hit in Arkansas, where the symphony orchestra will have a new $12 million home. The Stella Boyle Smith Music Center is the symphony's first permanent home in its 58-year history.

Actress Shelley Duvall, 75, known for her roles in The Shining and a number of Robert Altman’s films, died at her home in Texas of complications related to diabetes, her partner Dan Gilroy said.

After a two-week trial, a federal judge in Boston will rule on whether the Trump administration's crackdown on noncitizen pro-Palestinian protesters is an unconstitutional violation of their right to free speech.

The 2026 NBA playoffs begin on Saturday. NPR's A Martinez and sports journalist Martenzie Johnson preview the postseason filled with strong championship contenders.

Holiday travel can already be stressful. Here's how a prolonged government shutdown might make things even harder and whether you should travel at all.

Montgomery, Ala., has a new monument park where visitors are confronted with the history of enslaved people in America.

An Ohio based company is one of the larger institutional home-buyers that's bought thousands of homes to rent out. Now, it's selling hundreds of homes to pay debt as it fields complaints from renters.

Opening statements are to begin in the trial of three men — the last of those accused in a failed plot to kidnap Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Nine others were convicted; while two were acquitted.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy MCcain, executive director of the World Food Programme, about her current trip to Zambia, where people are enduring a severe drought and going hungry.

Four NPR staffers recommend fiction from our Books We Love list: "Land of Milk and Honey," "Western Lane, " "The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece," and "The Covenant of Water."

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Courtney Nguyen, senior writer for WTA Insider in New York, about 19-year old tennis player Coco Gauff, who's playing in her first U.S. Open semifinals.

Grocery prices are a key component of any household budget, and rising food prices can sour the electorate's mood.

The Biden administration said it will respond after three U.S. service members were killed in a drone attack in Jordan. But any kind of military action in the volatile region carries its own risks.

While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.

Venezuela has freed a handful of detainees in what it calls a gesture of national unity. Rights groups say releases are slow and the country's repressive system remains in place.

Why do some butterflies live for months while others survive only weeks? Tufts University researcher Jessica Foley explains what Heliconius butterflies can teach us about aging.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the British former prince, was arrested Thursday for allegedly passing confidential government information to Jeffrey Epstein.

Britain's prime minister is facing calls to resign for naming a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as ambassador to the U.S. Police are also investigating if the king's brother passed trade secrets to Epstein.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She opened doors for black and female writers.