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On a new album, the experimental vocal group Roomful of Teeth and songwriter Gabriel Kahane take up residence in a multidimensional hotel with a time-traveling elevator and a quirky clientele.

Both major candidates for president of Afghanistan claim to be leading the vote count, as stories of violence and intimidation at polling places continue to emerge. Guy Raz speaks with Jean MacKenzie, a correspondent for GlobalPost.com and the director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Afghanistan, about the election and its aftermath.

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

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?

Dina Temple-Raston is a correspondent on NPR's Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology and social justice.

Mike Pesca first reached the airwaves as a 10-year-old caller to a New York Jets-themed radio show and has since been able to parlay his interests in sports coverage as a National Desk correspondent for NPR based in New York City.

The former president will headline the annual conservative conference with a Sunday address, his first speech since leaving office. His baseless election fraud claims could also get heavy play.

The first installment in Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes' new graphic novel series uses goofy art — and four-eyed robotic birds — to get kids excited about learning to code.

Unseasonably cold weather continues to grip much of the Sunshine State, so much so, it's actually colder in parts of Florida, than Alaska.

Some members of the Florida Board of Governors and other university leaders hope the Florida Legislature will backtrack on a last-minute policy that ties their budgets to a limit on out-of-state enrollment.

U.S. Federal Reserve raises rates for fourth time in 2022, this time by another three-quarters of a percentage point to battle inflation. It's at a size and pace we haven't seen since the 1980s.

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.

Many Democratic voters are lukewarm on Biden. Many Republican voters are lukewarm on Trump. As the dust settles from the midterms, we look ahead at what this means for the next big political contest.

Investors were left holding a $50 billion bag this week when money manager Bernard Madoff admitted to what could be the largest Ponzi scheme ever. Barbara Flood lost a great deal of money in the fraud case.

"It has been, and still is, a hard time for many" Americans, President Obama said in Tuesday night's State of the Union address. "But tonight, we turn the page."

Consumer prices jumped 5.4% in the last 12 months ending in September. That matches the highest level of inflation in 13 years.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Rachel Browne, reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, about the official report regarding alleged pedophilia by Catholic priests in Australia. She says over 4,500 people have made claims of child sexual abuse connected to Catholic institutions over the last 35 years. One of the key figures is American priest and canon lawyer Thomas Doyle, who is a whistleblower. He's been testifying to The Royal Commission investigating the abuse about the Church's cover-ups.

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.

Will the DREAM Act become a reality? Is there comprehensive reform on the way? Will the GOP be able to reach out to Latino and other immigrant groups? The coming year could make a difference in the lives of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

It's been a tough year for most of us, and we've been asking what's helped you cope. For many of us — it was mother nature and our four legged friends — that have gotten us through it.

Though she's made careful study of the history of South Asian music, Zeb Bangash's career defies easy assumptions about art and Islam.

As a Colombian-American singer-songwriter, Soraya has spent her life traveling between two worlds. NPR's Felix Contreras reports on Soraya's career and a personal challenge that threatened to derail it.

Country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver has lived through some hard times, but nothing compares to the past three years. In that time, his mother, wife and son all died. Then Shaver suffered a massive heart attack. NPR's Bob Edwards interviews Shaver about his new CD and the therapeutic benefit of writing songs.