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Rafe Esquith has taught kids from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. His book, 'Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire,' outlines the methods he's found to be successful.

Tom DeLay, the former House Republican chief, defends his and the GOP's leadership during its 12 years of power in Congress and says he will continue to fight charges that he misused campaign money.

Alareer was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that also killed six other members of his family.

Schumer is back — kind of.

For the Perry siblings of Tupelo, Miss. — ages 9, 14 and 16 — making music involves making unique instruments from car parts. The young family band with astonishingly mature blues chops demonstrates its craft in NPR's Studio 4A.

In Paris, holiday buche de Noel cakes verge on art. Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan has created her own Franco-American version that's fun to make and "just as good as birthday cake," she says.

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion, stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to unauthorized trades. The swindler reportedly worked at the bank's equity division in London.

One man at Malawi's Zomba Prison said that music is a form of freedom for the inmates, transporting them to a better place.

A new study finds that butterflies probably originated in North or Central America around 100 million years ago. (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on May 15, 2023.)

Police say the suspect, a 43-year-old man, was found off the MSU campus and died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Five others, all students, are in critical condition.

Witnesses and video footage on social media have begun to paint a picture of the horror that transpired at the shopping center in Allen, a suburb of Dallas.

At 18, Yundi Li became the youngest person ever to win the prestigious International Chopin Competition. The pianist, now 22, discusses his enthusiasm for the 19th-century Polish composer.

What lessons has Hollywood learned from last year's strikes?

Four months after its top-selling 737 Max airliner was grounded worldwide, Boeing announced a 35% drop in revenues and a loss of $2.9 billion in the second quarter.

An Azerbaijani airliner crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau with dozens dead, according to officials.

Jamie Spurway left his hometown in Scotland for a semester abroad in California in 1998. When he got there he had trouble getting to his final destination until a friendly stranger offered him help.

Former special operations agent Paul Scharre helped create U.S. military guidelines on autonomous weapons. His new book Army of None, looks at the advances in technology, and the questions they raise.

Exhausted from taking the kids to countless kiddie activities? Overwhelmed by too many toys? Here's what Western parents can learn from other cultures about how kids (and parents too) can have fun.

Once upon a time, the Red Wolf roamed the south and eastern United States, from Texas to Pennsylvania. Today, there are fewer than 40 wolves left in the...

Florida’s top leadership offices are up for grabs this year and one of the largest jobs is overseeing the state’s multi-billion dollar agriculture and...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to UCLA European history professor Geoffrey Symcox, who has just edited the 13th volume of a history of Christopher Columbus using documents written during the 15th and 16th centuries. His book Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies: A Brief History with Documents will be available in paperback in January 2005.

The heat came early to India, and everyone is suffering. Here's a report from our village correspondent.

Evening Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Op. 90 "Italian" for March 6, 2023

Evening Masterwork: Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 in e, Op. 98 for March 19, 2023

Evening Masterwork: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 in g-minor for January 28, 2024