DD:. Even though college basketball’s March Madness is underway, WBGO’s Film Critic is getting excited that Major League ...

Stephin Merritt calls himself a “hippie brat.” Raised by a spiritually restless mother, he spent his childhood in near-constant motion—33 homes by the time he turned 22. It was a disconnected, ...

Cleo Sol, one of soul music's most precious voices, has amassed a collection of spellbinding, mainstage-worthy songs. But at the same time, the British singer-songwriter has become just as known for ...

A federal judge has temporarily barred the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Kari Lake, President Trump's senior adviser at the agency, from moving ahead with plans to cut off all federal funds to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden-era federal regulation that essentially bans manufacturers from selling so-called ghost guns. These are build-it-yourself gun kits, mainly bought ...

NPR CEO Katherine Maher and her counterpart at PBS, Paula Kerger, appeared Wednesday before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, where they defended public broadcasting against accusations ...

A U.S. House subcommittee has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, was attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis have taken to the streets across the country in recent days in some of the largest protests since the war in Gaza began in 2023. They're demanding a deal between Israel and ...

In honor of Women's History Month, WBGO celebrates Phoebe Jacobs, the late jazz promoter and Executive Vice President of the Louis Armstrong Foundation. On November 14, 2003, Jacobs came to WBGO to ...

A Chinese scholar who studies the United States has some opinions about the early moves of the second Trump administration. Da Wei spoke with NPR last year. He told us then that his decades of ...

Race and politics were front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices took up a voting rights case involving Louisiana's congressional redistricting after the 2020 Census. The ...