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NPR's Audie Cornish checks in with music venue owners & artists to gauge how they're managing during the pandemic and what funding from the Save Our Stages Act would do for the live music industry.

Anne Sutton of member station KTOO in Juneau reports that Alaska's love affair with tourism is showing signs of strain. The seasonal influx of visitors has put wear and tear on the state's infrastructure, and residents aren't sure the tourist dollars that come with them are enough to offset the damage. So voters will go to polls October 5th to decide whether to level a per-head tax on out of state visitors.

President Bush proposes cuts to hundreds of federal programs in his 2006 budget, released Monday. But the $2.5 trillion in spending doesn't include the expense of keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan or overhauling Social Security. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR senior Washington, D.C., editor Ron Elving.

Nella's debut album, Voy, is a meditation on the land she's left behind. The work earned her a 2019 Latin Grammy nomination in the category of Best New Artist.

Colville Reservation's council has been doing its best to insulate the north central Washington tribe from the coronavirus. But borders are fluid, so the community's precautions haven't been enough.

Utah jails have the highest death rate per capita in the country. State officials who want to investigate those deaths don't have access to jail standards. They're owned by a consultant.

The task of rebuilding and re-establishing government in provincial Iraq has fallen largely to small groups of U.S. Army reservists. In Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, for example, some 30 Army reservists are trying to meet the needs of more than a million Iraqis. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

The town of North Port was hit hard by Hurricane Ian, and then days of river flooding. As the waters start to recede, residents are starting to dry out and take stock of the damage.

It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.

Next month, Wisconsin voters will go to the polls in a recall election that could remove controversial Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office. But first, Democratic voters will mark their ballots in next week's primary election that will determine which Democrat will face-off against Walker. Labor unions were the driving force behind the bid to recall Walker, and the movement has a great deal at stake in the election.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Mother Jones reporter Samantha Michaels about an investigation into "failure to protect" laws and how abuse survivors can end up serving more time than their abusers.

As ICE immigration enforcement intensifies across the country, a Supreme Court ruling permits racial profiling as grounds for immigration stops.

A little-noticed provision in a new Florida transportation law changes how new vehicle brands can enter the state's market. A journalist explains his reporting on the contributions behind it.

The CEO of a U.S. tech company, who partnered with a Russian firm and began hiring staff in Russia a decade ago, is scrambling to book flights in a bid to get her colleagues out of the country.

A lot is changing in the media landscape. The industry's troubles this year offer clues about the most important questions companies will face next year.

False claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause deaths and other diseases such as cancer are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines saved lives and do not cause cancers.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., about his views on what the federal government and lawmakers can do about police excessive force.

The sometimes-transgressive pop star has a new album, Mayhem, that seems poised to recapture the confrontational darkness of her early work. There's more than one reason to hope it's true.

Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states. The vote results will have consequences beyond women's reproductive rights.

Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks with former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft about the legal issues surrounding the prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the captured suspect in the Boston marathon bombings.

In a sudden, final offensive, the Taliban pushed into Kabul, as Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president left the country and U.S. diplomatic personnel beat a quick retreat from the embassy compound.

The Harvard law professor told NPR he will present constitutional arguments during the Senate trial — but will not be involved in other strategic decisions.

Perhaps best known for its 2001 hit, "The Middle," the band recently released its eighth studio album, Damage. Lead singer Jim Adkins talks about the band's evolution through two decades together.

On his new album, The North Borders, the British composer and DJ uses samples from the outside world, like the sound of a truck's air brakes, to push the idea of what can create melody and rhythm.

Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer's new Christmas album, Sugar & Booze, is partly a send-up of the holiday and partly an earnest embrace of its warmth.