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The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs. Zach Williams sings every word with Springsteen intensity — it's the sort of delivery that doesn't seem like it could get more powerful, until it does.

Joy Williams and John Paul White have built a sound in which warmth seeps out of every note. The pair recently announced a hiatus, but before that, they performed this live version of "Kingdom Come."

The Tennessee band's music was quickly pegged as "emo" — a melodic variant of punk that has its share of detractors. "Emo really stands for emotion," says singer Hayley Williams. "I don't think there's anything wrong with writing songs that are emotional."

A coroner's preliminary report says the men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Investigators with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration are still determining what happened inside the Revenue Virginius mine.

Mecklenburg County parks commissioners asked for more money to maintain parks Tuesday night. During a presentation of the advisory group’s annual report to the Mecklenburg County Board, parks commissioner William Colyer said deferred maintenance needs and old, inadequately maintained facilities are the biggest issue facing the county's parks.

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

When he was appointed attorney general, William Barr inherited the Mueller probe. Since then, he has won the confidence of President Trump but Democrats view him with deep suspicion.

Black-owned businesses were among the hardest hit during the pandemic, in part because many started with less capital. The board chair of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber of Commerce tells WFAE's "Morning Edition" host, Marshall Terry, that those that survived learned the importance of forging relationships with everyone from banks to fellow business owners.

Tom Hiddleston portrays Hank Williams in the biopic "I Saw the Light." He tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that taking on the country icon was more like his Shakespearean roles than one might imagine.

Aaron Sorkin's latest film zeroes in on one very stressful week in the lives of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), when Lucy was accused of being a Communist.

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has had a great season and is closing in on one of baseball's rarest batting milestones: breaking .400. The last player to do it was Ted Williams in 1941.

Jae Su Chun has been accused by 19 current or former athletes of physical, verbal and psychological abuse. He disputes the allegations.

The composer, in a new collaboration with the Grammy-winning choir The Crossing, uses the words of Jeff Bezos and William Penn to explore connections among farming, colonialism and capitalism.

Hair salons have long been a safe space for Black women. And that doesn't seem to have changed despite all the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hillary Clinton is urging all of her supporters to get behind Barack Obama. In a prime-time speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Clinton told the delegates, "No way, no how, no McCain." That line drew applause from Obama, who was watching with supporters in Montana.

New transcripts from bodycam footage shows George Floyd telling officers that he cannot breathe and they are killing him numerous times before he died. Floyd's death ignited nationwide protests.

Many of America's most well-known comedians got their break at The Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip in LA. Chris Rock, David Letterman, Robin Williams were just three. Mitzi Shore owned the place. She died Wednesday at 87.

After George Floyd's death, a majority of the Minneapolis City Council vowed to defund the police. Ten months later, it hasn't happened, but the debate about police reform in the city continues.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SUSAN WOODWARD, VISITING FELLOW AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND AUTHOR OF BALKAN TRAGEDY, PUBLISHED BY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION - 1995, AND WILLIAM HIGHLAND, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AND CURRENTLY PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, ABOUT AMERICA'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY OPTIONS IN BOSNIA.

KIM RICH. She's written a new memoir, "Johnny's Girl," (William Morrow & Co.) about growing up in Anchorage, Alaska during the oil boom years, the daughter of "one of the most notorious underworld figures in the city." Her father operated illegal gambling houses and massage parlors all over the city. RICH's father was eventually murdered