The 2026 Tiny Desk contest brought in thousands of entries, including several standouts in the rock and folk genres.

We remember Gordon McCann, Ozarks culture preservationist. McCann passed this past weekend, at 94. Listen to and read this piece on McCann's life and work, produced in 2010. Gordon McCann began ...

Hear from a Christian County Presiding Commissioner candidate's forum and we have a remembrance of Ozarks music ...

The U.S. attacks were the ninth consecutive day of bombing since peace talks between the two countries collapsed in dispute ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to journalist Pamela Colloff about her book "Catch the Devil," a true story of a con man who was a jailhouse informant in nearly 40 criminal cases.

Nursing remains an overwhelmingly female occupation. But with nurses in high demand, male college students searching for stable careers are finding their way to the field.

Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news f ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Republican strategist Rob Burgess about Republican efforts to move forward with a $95 billion party-line budget reconciliation bill.

Sales of avocado oil and products made with it are booming as consumers willingly pay a premium, drawn by the oil's health halo. New research finds many products actually contain other, cheaper oils.

Protests over President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's dismissal of the country's defense minister coincide with a fresh wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine.

Spain was crowned World Cup champion on Sunday, wrapping up a six-week-long tournament co-hosted in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street, as his successor Andy Burnham takes office. He's the country's 7th prime minister in the tumultuous 10 years since the Brexit vote.