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The Richmond, Va., neighborhood of Fulton was once home to a large number of the city's middle class African-American families. But by the 1960s, it had fallen on hard times. A new album by bluesman Corey Harris pays tribute to the Southern neighborhood with a haunted past.

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday.

He will answer to Senate and House committees on the company's failure to protect users' personal data.

After some parts of the region received a foot of rain, skies will gradually clear as Ian moves off Florida's east coast tonight.

Joe Talbot, frontman for the British punk group IDLES, talks about Joy as an Act of Resistance, how Van Morrison's Astral Weeks changed his life and his tips for driving across Kansas while on tour.

Henryk Górecki's rather simple arrangement of a folk song from the Kurpie region of northeast Poland holds power beyond its purpose.

With the help of longtime partner Gillian Welch, Rawlings assembles a sweetly engaging, impressively wide-ranging collection of American roots music.

A federal judge has unsealed a list of items the FBI seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during a court-authorized search last month.

Vig looks back on a band eager to work and an artist struggling with his success.

The telescope uses a camera with filters that can make a color map out of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.

The Supreme Court is honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a private ceremony and then a public viewing today. Ginsburg died on Friday. She was 87.

Diana Krall's latest album is dominating the market for sultry Brazilian tunes. But reviewer Tom Moon recommends an alternative: the U.S. debut album of Magos Herrera, a Mexican-born jazz vocalist with a gift for understatement.

Spain kicked off the festive period Thursday with the celebration of one of its most iconic events, the bumper Christmas lottery that is the world's richest for the total prize money involved.

Ziegler will replace state Sen. Joe Gruters of Sarasota, who decided not to run for reelection after holding the state chair position since 2019.

The wreckage of the USS Albacore, credited with sinking at least 10 enemy vessels during the war, was identified, the Navy said — almost 80 years after it was presumed lost.

The network has decided to cancel the sci-fi series after its recent fourth season. Ratings and viewership declined over the course of its four seasons.

Small business owner Gluesenkamp Perez beat Trump-backed Joe Kent in a conservative region of southwest Washington state.

With no Powerball winner announced on Wednesday, the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing on Saturday night.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Variety's Jem Aswad about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into Live Nation and the lack of competition in the ticketing industry.

The Welsh-born artist, a co-founder of The Velvet Underground, has been relentlessly creating for nearly 60 years. On his new album, he sounds as alive as ever.

Pink Floyd's historic album Dark Side of the Moon turns 50 years old today – cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin joins us to discuss its twisting psychological themes.

Hayley Williams was just a teenager when her band Paramore became a pop-punk favorite – now in her 30s, Paramore is back with an album that shows pop/punk can age gracefully. It's called This Is Why.

The scale of China's construction in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands is clear in new satellite images released by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, whose director speaks with NPR.

Thompson has been named acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel, which approves executive branch legal arguments on armed drones, surveillance and other national security issues.

The president offered the Washington attorney the job, and he accepted. He's 55 and a partner at a firm where he handles labor and employment cases.