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Luis Echeverria served as president in the early 1970s during hard economic times. He is most remembered for his repression of the country's democracy movement and initiating Mexico's "Dirty War."

Eight days after the public found out about a whistleblower's complaint regarding the president, the acting director of national intelligence testified before the House Intelligence Committee.

After eight years under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago has a political novice as mayor. Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot took the oath and has big plans to shakeup Chicago's way of doing business.

The community in Uvalde, Texas turned out in droves this weekend to voice their anger about the botched police response and investigation of the deadly elementary school shooting that happened in May.

Some clothing designers are watching this week's fashion shows in New York with an eye to knocking off their competitors' designs. Like the music industry, the fashion business is rife with unauthorized copying. But it's relatively free of infringement lawsuits like the ones the major record labels recently filed. NPR's Rick Karr reports as part of Morning Edition's series on the style industry.

In 1990, the Big Mac's arrival in Moscow signaled a new era. Now McDonald's is tearing down the golden arches and writing off its investment in Russia.

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles is "home" for thousands of men, women, and even children -- some estimates put the number as high as 10,000 on any given night. Farai Chideya takes a tour of the city's mean streets with the people trying to help.

A new Spanish-language soap opera is entertaining U.S. audiences... and educating them. Nuestro Barrio, rich in romance and heartbreak, also works in tips on personal finance for first-generation immigrants.

In the second of two different perspectives, commentator Mark Tushnet offers his thoughts on the tenure of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Tushnet argues that O'Connor was the centrist on this Court, and now the center will shift to the right.

The order will create a new task force on reproductive health care and to coordinate additional steps to help people access abortions.

Haggard has been churning out albums for nearly 40 years, fashioning a career as an iconoclastic country-music legend. Now 70, "The Hag" has just made a foray into bluegrass: The Bluegrass Sessions features revamped versions of songs both old and new.

Her creations invoke polyglot rhythms and revolutionary rhetoric from around the world. But singer, producer and rapper M.I.A. communicates them through agitated, propulsive dance music. Two years after her debut, her new album finds her more adventurous than ever.

When James Brown's funky horn section got cooking, the Godfather of Soul would call up Maceo Parker for a solo. The saxophonist has since launched his own solo career: His new double album is packed with funky jams and a tribute to Ray Charles.

At the Ocean Charter School near Marina del Rey, Calif., 40 percent of the 2008 kindergarten class received vaccination exemptions. Author Michael Specter says the parents in this upscale enclave are prime examples of what he calls "denialism."

The West Coast delicacy of fresh Dungeness crab won't be on holiday tables this year. A massive toxic algae bloom in the Pacific Ocean has delayed the commercial crabbing season.

The composer and singer-songwriter's new album is a set of 10 vignettes about buildings in L.A. Throughout The Ambassador, Kahane speaks many musical languages fluently and beautifully.

The inventive singer doesn't bother adhering to the iconography of vintage soul, preferring instead to point his path toward the future.

The fast-rising country band brings first-rate craftsmanship to one of popular music's abiding themes: savoring fleeting pleasures.

Just as an arena is built to hold anyone and everyone, Wolfmother's arena-rock is designed to contain everything that inspires it.

A worthy extension of three tremendous catalogs, in which three great singer-songwriters sound enhanced and invigorated by the challenge of living up to each other's legacies.

With opera's subterranean serenaders, it's important to know a basso buffo from a basso profondo.

The maverick American composer spent 43 years perfecting his Piano Sonata; it took another non-conformist American, Henry Brant, another 36 years to transform it into a symphony. Hear an excerpt.

Songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood discuss the transformative power of arrangement. The power-pop band's new album is titled Sky Full of Holes.

The resourceful young violinist asked for brand-new encores — and, boy, did she get them. Hear fascinating works by 27 contemporary composers, written especially for Hilary Hahn.

Where the band's last album used prickly electronics and cavernous arrangements to hold humanity at arm's length, Deep In The Iris turns those elements into lulling hymns to cleansing and redemption.