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"We'll just bleep this interview to death," says Morning Edition host Leila Fadel ahead of her conversation with Demi Lovato about a harder-edged new album, HOLY F***.

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark has taken a kitschy tradition and made it artful.

Every year thousands of musicians enter NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. This year's winner was announced Wednesday — an artist called The Philharmonik, with a song called "What's It All Mean?"

At Saturday evening Mass in Pennsylvania, one Catholic priest took the opportunity to address from the pulpit accusations of massive clergy sexual abuse.

The seat currently held by 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein is safely Democratic. Feinstein has not announced if she will retire, but Democratic hopefuls are already entering the race for her seat.

At the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and 28th Street in Los Angeles, you'll find Robert Oliver wearing a Statue of Liberty costume and dancing to promote Liberty Tax Service. "I'm never embarrassed to be out here," he says. "I'm proud of what I do."

Parents and kids across the country are wrapping up their back-to-school shopping. Many are using credit cards to buy their backpacks, book covers and calculators. But some are turning to an old-fashioned payment plan that's made a comeback: layaway.

To help us hang on to summer vibes, we invited author Jade Chang to share a couple of the books she's reading and to talk about he own novel, What a Time to be Alive.

For decades, Irish nuns ran homes for unwed mothers. Beneath one of them, a ghastly discovery: 796 babies buried in a septic tank. Forensics experts are now unearthing Ireland's past.

The podcast explores why New York City high schools, particularly that have primarily students of color, lack journalism programs.

Authors Dorthe Nors and Sayaka Murata use bracing good humor to subvert readers' expectations about single women in their new novels, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and Convenience Store Woman.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with retired American diplomat Ryan Crocker about repeated U.S. calls for Israel to reduce the civilian death toll in Gaza.

"It’s possible that the most important thing my mother did for me was to not see herself primarily as the mom of a disabled child."

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, about links between online gaming communities and violence.

Pope Francis worked to make the Catholic Church more open to the LGBTQ community. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the Rev. James Martin about what direction the new pontiff could take the church.

The United Nations has formally declared famine in Northern Gaza - and is warning that over 500,000 people are facing catastrophic starvation. The World Food Programme's Executive Director Cindy McCain is calling for a surge of aid into Gaza.

Moira Brown, perhaps the oldest of Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans, will be in Boston when Scotland's team plays against Haiti on June 13. "I'm the luckiest person in this world," she says.

President-elect Trump is continuing to announce his picks for his cabinet and other high-ranking officials.

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, NPR readers tell their disability stories and share what they wish other people knew about living with a disability.

The Black AIDS Institute and LIFE AIDS recently held their fourth annual Community Town Hall on HIV/AIDS. Hear from a panel of young people who spoke about living and working with HIV and AIDS. They share their thoughts on combating the disease.

President Barack Obama hit the road again Thursday, hoping to cement the deal for his stimulus bill. But while he was in Illinois, his nominee for Commerce secretary, Judd Gregg, withdrew his nomination over "irresolvable conflicts." The GOP senator from New Hampshire cited differences over the stimulus plan.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease.

The Labor Department says U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in August, fewer than private analysts had expected. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7%.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Daniel Fried of the Atlantic Council, about what Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's testimony reveals about the backchannel diplomacy between the U.S. and Ukraine.

Three Florida nurseries filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking for an injunction to delay the state's medical marijuana process in three of five state…