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Insert $2 into the Biblio-Mat, and customers get a mystery, a biography, historical fiction — or a dud. The owner of a bookstore in Toronto came up with the machine as a way to clear his shelves of more ill-favored reads.

Woods is playing in the PNC Championship with his 12-year-old son this weekend. It's the iconic golfer's first time competing since his car accident in February, which resulted in extensive surgery.

On vacation in France and away from the news, NPR's Scott Simon enjoyed people-watching and tells us about it.

In an R&B world of larger-than-life divas, Jill Scott brings brains, heart and class to commonplace African-American culture. For the most part, The Real Thing is a murmured, whispered piece of work and the most purely pop record of her career.

The Somali-Canadian rapper was introduced to the world as The Dusty Foot Philosopher with his first album in 2005. A new full-length album, Country, God, or the Girl, comes out in May.

The critically acclaimed rapper turned retro-soul crooner has undergone many transformations over the course of his decade-long career. But instead of abandoning his hip-hop roots, he plans to remain in all of his musical outfits, while still exploring new ones.

Americans remember The Four Tops for "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)." But Italians may know it by a different name: "Piangono Gli Uomini." A new compilation spotlights the Italian, German, French and Spanish versions of classic R&B songs.

Environmental advocates celebrated the creation of a chief resilience officer. Now they have doubts.

In her memoir, Susannah Cahalan writes about the month she descended into madness, experiencing seizures, paranoia, psychosis and catatonia. At first, her family was frightened, and her doctors, baffled. The eventual prognosis? A rare autoimmune disease that was attacking her brain.

The 15-acre lagoon was built in the Mirada community near Interstate 75 and State Road 52 in San Antonio.

Last week, we asked listeners to submit their favorite winter songs, and our inbox was jammed in no time.

When Heap composes a song, you never know what she might decide is an instrument. For Ellipse, she used every piece of her elliptical-shaped house as a sound. Her fans followed along online as she wrote the album.

On his new album, Saltarello, the adventurousviolist creates surprising musical juxtapositions.

What do you do if you're an aspiring drummer and someone steals your drum set? If you're Piney Gir, you become a singer. The art-rock performer pays homage to an iconic Native American while channeling '60s pop music on her newest album.

The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.

There have been no new cases in Collier County, the epicenter of a measles outbreak that began in January at Ave Maria University, since March 28.

Cities from San Francisco to Philadelphia saw anti-police brutality and Black Lives Matter protests for the second weekend since the killing of George Floyd sparked outrage across the world.

With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage. Language barriers, housing instability and computer literacy could stand in their way.

A flurry of conflict-themed videos has inundated TikTok, sending countless videos depicting military action unrelated to the war in Ukraine to millions of viewers.

At annual meetings this spring, shareholders will be pushing publicly-traded companies for information about how they're contributing to climate change, and what they're doing about the problem.

States are turning to new drugs for executions because of a supply shortage that's been years in the making. Now legal battles are springing up, questioning whether the new alternatives violate inmates' rights.

Conservatives attack financial firms that consider environmental, social and corporate governance issues. But companies in red states won't stop trying to operate more sustainably.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kwame Alexander about This Is The Honey — an anthology of contemporary Black poets that he curated.

A small network of anti-abortion rights activists has been making progress pushing for bills that would classify people who get abortions as criminals.

Black architects who helped shape the modern architecture movement have often been overlooked. One effort preserves the structures they designed and tells their stories.