On the album's 20th anniversary, it's much easier to recognize Be as a crucial intersection record — not simply for Common, on his way to becoming rap's hokey, well-intentioned uncle, but for hip-hop ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — On a recent Saturday morning, several dozen volunteers at a youth center are weaving strips of cloth to make camouflage netting for the Ukrainian army. They are in the capital ...

Combine an intelligent interviewer with a roster of guests that, according to the Chicago Tribune, would be prized by any talk-show host, and you're bound to get an interesting conversation. Fresh Air ...

Many in Virginia's Culpeper County are unhappy with the president's pardon of a sheriff convicted of bribery. Trump called him a victim "persecuted by the Radical left monsters and left for dead." ...

In a week when two witnesses using pseudonyms testified that Combs had assaulted or abused them and another witness said he dangled her over a hotel balcony, the rap mogul's defense team conducted its ...

Gerard Van de Werken is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Austin, a non-profit housing organization. For our series, Here to Help, he discusses his decades-long history with the organization.

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode How we experience time. Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova says our brain perceives time but our body shapes how we experience it. She shares how our ...

An American woman and her daughters were targeted last week in a raid in their Oklahoma City home, even though the Department of Homeland Security told KFOR-TV that the target was the previous ...

The Zombies are the subject of a new documentary. Today, we hear from Blunstone, the group's lead singer. "I tend to sing sad songs better than happy-go-lucky songs," he said in this 1998 interview.

Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

Al Jazeera reports that Iran’s state-run agency Tasnim says Tehran launched the missiles on U.S. air bases in Qatar and Iraq, after the U.S. bombed three key nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend.

Find a book excerpt here. Actor, producer and director Griffin Dunne‘s memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir” tells the story of the Dunne family and how they were devastated by the 1982 ...