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China and several regional neighbors are locked in a growing dispute over the status of islands throughout the South China Sea. Here's a guide to what's at stake.

Ukraine will get most of the weapons as it struggles to combat Russia's overwhelming firepower. The bill also includes more arms for Israel, and humanitarian help for Gaza.

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration a series of major wins in the final blockbuster week of its term. We rounded up the final decisions in one place.

No one wants rats scurrying about their neighborhood. But they're a cunning and evasive foe. Now, a community near Boston is trying their luck with a different approach: rat birth control.

The National Eating Disorders Association has indefinitely taken down a chatbot after the bot produced diet and weight loss advice. The nonprofit had already closed its human-staffed helpline.

Many Ukrainians had been maintaining a state of calm as warning signs grew of a Russian invasion. But Russia's wide-scale attack on Ukraine has dramatically changed the mood in the nation's capital.

Those familiar with Radiohead's Thom Yorke — the great rock poet of anxious despair, whose internal dialogue revs like a thousand engines stuck in neutral — might be skeptical of any attempt to give his inner doomsayer the day off. But he's determined to try.

The song cycle Winterreise stands among the masterpieces in the art of song. Schubert conjures up harmonic twists and melodic turns, conveying emotions with remarkable simplicity and force.

The title of British Sea Power's new album (Do You Like Rock Music?) feels like an invitation rather than a question: Judging from the album's contents, the answer had better not be no. "Lights Out for Darker Skies" dispenses anthemic power chords without skimping on the complexities.

The historic abundance of whitetips may have been overlooked, says a new study. If so, the shark's population has been cut by 99 percent in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.

As hospitals warn of shortages, President Trump claims without offering evidence that he's hearing from administrators who are pleased with the current levels of supplies.

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward cover pop standards with the timeless impeccability for which they're known. Once again, Ward hovers mostly in the background, leaving Deschanel to steal the playful show.

We like to periodically look back at some of our all-time favorite recordings of years past. On this installment of Old Music Tuesday, All Songs producer and co-host Robin Hilton recalls an artist he hasn't been able to listen to in a long time.

The gospel-punk band's self-titled debut couches its invective in feedback, guitar noise, bruising drum machines and Franklin James Fisher's guttural howls.

A new Johnny Cash album, American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave was released this week to coincide with what would have been Cash's 78th birthday. We remember the singer, songwriter and guitarist, who wrote more than 1,500 songs — and performed from the 1950s until just before his death in 2003.

"Caught In The Crowd" plays like the other side of Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" -- it's a clear-eyed portrait of a teenager who, confronted with a decision, made precisely the wrong one and feels pangs of regret to this day.

The British electro-pop group mixes sweaty, thumping club beats and quirky melodies with the sort of heart-on-sleeve confessionals that'd befit a singer-songwriter. It's a strange combination, but a winning one; never before has the group nailed the formula quite the way it does in "Take It In."

The Japanese composer delivers a highly energetic and joyful Tiny Desk set.

The Griselda MC takes over a Queens diner to perform a quarantine concert for Tiny Desk.