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While many musicians love the Crescent City, few choose to stay after they become successful. The New Orleans-raised Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews comes from a long line of brass-band greats, but is quickly coming into his own with a jazz-funk group — and plans to stay.

Climate activists have never liked Trump-appointed World Bank President David Malpass. But this week, his comments on climate change fueled calls for President Biden to make a change.

Michael Kovrig reportedly was taken into custody but China has not acknowledged it. Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou faces extradition from Canada to the U.S. to be tried on fraud charges.

The state is poised to set a 2035 deadline for all new vehicles sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen, a step that will speed the transition to more climate-friendly vehicles.

The Seattle Storm lost its semifinal game on Tuesday, bringing a bittersweet end to what the 41-year-old had said would be her final season. She retires as the winningest WNBA player of all time.

Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamped southwest Florida, flooding streets and buildings, knocking out power to over 1 million people and threatening catastrophic damage further inland

While the Trump campaign has resumed rallies and is trying to project normalcy, the Biden campaign has stuck with small events to emphasize the ongoing threat of the virus.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dee Davis, publisher of The Daily Yonder rural news site, about the flooding in his town Whitesburg, Ky.

Election deniers, abortion and Trump's rampage against Republicans who voted to impeach him. It's a busy first primary night in August in five states, including battleground Arizona.

Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice voting is being used in general elections.

The iconic singer-songwriter performed her first public full-length show anywhere since 2000, with a little help from Brandi Carlile.

At an old-school amusement park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., called Funland, a generation of thrillseekers who grew up screaming in the park's Haunted Mansion now brings their kids to do the same.

The streaming service had forecast that it would lose 2 million subscribers. The less severe loss, combined with a projection of growth in July to September, helped lift Netflix's battered stock.

Musk has deleted a tweet in which he shared misinformation about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, but not before it had been retweeted and liked tens of thousands of times.

An anonymous woman said Walker was a "hypocrite" for running an anti-abortion campaign after allegedly pressuring her to terminate a pregnancy.

Even as the death toll in Turkey and Syria has risen to more than 43,000, search teams in southern Turkey have rescued a few people who were trapped in the debris, including a 12-year-old boy.

After the 2020 election, Fox News repeatedly aired claims of election fraud even though its stars and executives said, behind the scenes, those claims were "ludicrous," "bs" and "nonsense."

Republican Kevin McCarthy finally succeeded on the 15th vote to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. But he had to make numerous concessions along the way.

It was a big year for viruses, which simply refused to be ignored. And unlike the previous two years, COVID had to share the spotlight.

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about growing up in a house filled with music, playing at Harry and Meghan's royal wedding and performing some of his favorite pieces.

Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite his pledge to keep it up because of his free speech principles.

This area of Levy County is one of the most productive fossil sites in the Southeast. Over 70,000 specimens have been collected by the Florida Museum of Natural History and volunteers.

The U.S. and China have traded fiery allegations of extensive aerial surveillance programs since the U.S. shot down a Chinese balloon on Feb. 4. Here's a look at what's happened so far.

Oil and gas production is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.

President Biden and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders had different takes on the state of the economy last night. By many measures, the economy is improving, but many Americans don't feel that way.