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Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the U.S. Open championship matches in tennis and the start of the NFL regular season.

Food stylists will sometimes swap glue for milk and coat meat with motor oil. But on the set of The Taste of Things, the meals were real — and the actors kept eating after the director yelled "Cut!"

Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system.

A trio of craft breweries from the global soccer event's three host nations are using the tournament to brew something increasingly rare: cross-border solidarity.

Whether you're a craft brew aficionado or a chemical engineering buff - or both - "Sampling Science: The Engineering Behind Craft Beer" might be for…

Heather McGhee, author of 2021's The Sum of Us, discusses the economic cost of racism, the importance of community organizing and the "zero-sum lie" that progress for some means loss for others.

Jayden Daniels is about to play the game of his life, and former Washington quarterback Doug Williams can relate. He's has served as Senior Advisor to the team and Daniels this season.

This week's Billboard Hot 100 chart is full of country-music crossovers. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music reports.

Slow is the first time Martin has allowed himself to look back on a long career. Martin shares his characteristically dry wit on album No. 14: "I'm like a minor-league ball player, man."

The federal government is in charge of distributing one of the few treatment options for COVID-19: the antiviral drug remdesivir. But how are decisions made about which states need it most?

We continue to remember some of the nearly 400,000 people who died in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic. Florinda Flores, 85, a beloved grandmother in Roswell, N.M., died last month.

Kenneth Lay, founder and vilified former chairman of scandal-ridden Enron Corp., died of a heart attack Wednesday morning. He was 64.

In Gulfport, Miss., attorney Jim Wetzel and his wife, Garnette, have almost completed rebuilding their 20-year-old Georgian Manor on the coast. It's about the only home on Beach Boulevard that's still standing. The mayor of Gulfport calls it an inspiration to the community.

April 25 is Yom Hashoah, an annual remembrance of the Holocaust. It is still used as a touchstone for modern-day genocide. For NPR's Jeffrey Katz, it is more than a day of remembrance

Zachariah Fike finds old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet, tracks down the medals' owners, and returns them. So far, Fike — who earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2010 — is 5 for 5.

Nearly a century ago, explorer Hanns Vischer undertook a grueling 1,500-mile journey by camel across the Sahara desert. He later said that he entered the desert like a fool, and left it nearly crushed. A modern-day explorer has recreated his trek.

A newer drug, raloxifene, prevents breast cancer in older, high-risk women just as well as today's standby, tamoxifen -- but with fewer side effects, the National Cancer Institute announced Monday.

After Virginia Squier's young daughter accidentally boarded a train without her, a stranger stepped in to help.

While Jake Berry was in college, he learned one of his oldest friends was in the hospital more than an hour away. Berry didn't have a car, but two strangers gave him a ride.

At his new venture, The Blaze, Beck has far fewer audience members soaking in his commentary than he did at Fox News. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. Fox helped amplify Beck's voice, whereas now, Beck projects his message on his own terms.

A bipartisan task force created by Congress issued an urgent call to reform the federal prison system on Tuesday.

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew dozens of mostly Venezuelan undocumented migrants to Massachusetts, South Florida immigration activists called it inhumane.

Police in Spain's northeast region of Catalonia are being criticized for not doing enough to prevent last week's terror attack. More than a dozen people were killed in a van attack in Barcelona.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is making a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina. The state's January presidential primary will be the first held in the southern U.S. and could provide a key test of Obama's viability with black voters.