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The tobacco crop is quickly disappearing from the farm fields of Kentucky. But tobacco barns, in various states of repair, stand proudly on the landscape as icons of family farming.

Classical music critic Tom Manoff isn't usually a fan of French Baroque music. But he's found a boxed set of motets that he likes from a composer who met a bizarre end.

A month ago, President Trump went on Fox and downplayed the potential lethality of the novel coronavirus and compared it to the seasonal flu.

William and Diana Gutierrez lost their lives to COVID approximately two months apart last winter. We take a moment to remember their lives.

The joke used to be that some women went to college to get their M.R.S. — that is, a husband. But a study by the Pew Research Center finds that women today are more likely to marry men who have lower education levels and lower income levels than they do.

A Missouri resident was deported earlier this year to the Netherlands, a country he left when he was 5 years old. Now he's learning the language and trying to make a new life.

A Missouri resident detained by immigration authorities was deported this year to the Netherlands, a country he has not lived in since he was 5 years old. Now he's learning a new language and trying to make a new life.

The federal indictment against Donald Trump over efforts to subvert 2020 election results said the former president had a right to speak publicly about the election.

Jair Bolsonaro — a former army captain who expressed his admiration for dictatorship and repeatedly denigrated women and gays — looks certain to become the country's new president.

The highest inflation since the 1980s has many retirees scared. Their retirement nest eggs will be in peril if it persists over the long term.

After more than 80 years, Emma Thompson's The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit brings Beatrix Potter's beloved character back for a romp around the Scottish countryside — and lots of rule breaking. Thompson says Peter Rabbit's "disrespect for authority" is one of the things she loves about him.

Writer Sunil Yapa says his father taught him to have a global perspective from a very young age. Yapa's new novel was inspired by explosive global trade protests that took place in Seattle in 1999.

In Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth writes about an undercover investigation in which he — an African-American police detective — convinced the Ku Klux Klan that he was one of them.

Back in 1973, Erica Jong was tired of the silent, seething housewife, so she introduced a new kind of female protagonist: one who loved sex and wasn't ashamed to admit it. Jong joins NPR's Susan Stamberg to talk about hook-ups, Fifty Shades of Gray, and of course, the "zipless f - - - ."

For his much-anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning movie Get Out, the writer-director sets a family up against its own doppelgangers. That is, he made a full-on horror film.

One month into the job on ABC's The View, Rosie Perez talks about how things are going so far. She says one of the only things about the job that's not fun is the expectations of some critics.

NPR speaks with Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, about another round of sanctions on Russia.

Cleanup is expected to cost the libraries hundreds of thousands of dollars. The American Library Association says it is not seeing similar meth-related closings in other states.

St. Petersburg will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the "new" St. Pete Pier with a drone show Sunday. The producer of the event describes how a show like this comes to be.

President Biden knows better than almost anyone how hard it is to get gun bills passed. But after being at the forefront on previous efforts, he seems to be pushing it down his agenda as president.

President Biden on Saturday recognized the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — a move that could make Turkey angry.

The city of Miami, among the nation’s most vulnerable to sea rise and rising temperatures driven by climate change, is reorganizing the way it fights...

The Florida House held a ceremony to formally designate Miami Republican Rep. Daniel Perez as the next House Speaker. He will succeed Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, after the 2024 elections.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Jung Pak of the Brookings Institution about how the trade spat between the U.S. and China benefits North Korea.

President Trump's tariffs are almost "tailor-made" to hit the goods that lower income households prefer to purchase, says economist Ernie Tedeschi of Yale's nonpartisan Budget Lab.