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After months of wrangling and much tension, India and the US have finally released a framework for an interim trade agreement

Pakistan struck several sites in Afghanistan early Friday in what it calls an "open war." We look at what's driving the renewed fighting.

The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell. Interview

The married British duo Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt — aka Everything but the Girl — have their first album in 24 years. Ken Tucker reviews Fuse, then we listen back to a 2018 interview with Thorn.

A B-half diminished chord is known to some as “The Chord,” to others as the “Word of the Father” chord.

The stadium is filled with vaccinated fans, even with key players missing. Osaka is back and promising to celebrate her own accomplishments more (and says you should, too).

Jody Rosen says that 1909's "I Love My Wife — But Oh! You Kid!" not only spurred guardians of public morality to action but also changed American popular music forever.

The bill heads off fiscal calamity and puts an end — for now — to tense negotiations over the federal debt limit.

The ride, which previously featured racist imagery of Africans as spear-waving headhunters, has been transformed into a slapstick comedy in which the wildlife bests clueless safari-goers.

The Japanese automaker announced it expects to build 800,000 vehicles globally next month, up from the roughly 760,000 it made last December.

Actor Saoirse Ronan could watch Amy Heckerling's teen comedy Clueless a million times. "There are so many great moments and I literally love every single moment from start to finish of that film," she says.

The National Academy of Sciences weighs in on a feud over global warming. At issue is a study that found the Earth is hotter now than it's been in a thousand years. Some use that as an argument that global warming has already pushed the world into extreme climate territory.

"State of the Union" finds David Ford at his crankiest and most distinct, as he crafts a bitter, paranoid screed — "With friends like these, well, who needs politicians?" — that still mixes the personal and political while still sounding strangely lovely.

Tucked right in the middle of the drinking-too-much and not-loving-enough songs on The Little Willies' debut is one unassuming Norah Jones Moment. The song is "Roll On," and the intro, punctuated by brushes on a snare drum, suggests that what's to come will be just like the aw-shucks ambling of the preceding tracks.

In 1961, Wilbert Rideau killed a woman in Lake Charles, La. He's since become an award-winning prison journalist. This week, Rideau went on trial for the killing for a fourth time, hoping a jury will free him. NPR's Laura Sullivan reports.

Musician and writer David Was recounts how the man who wrote "The Christmas Song," jazz crooning legend Mel Torme, was pursuaded to record one of Was' very unconventional tunes — a song that would later become part of Torme's act.

On a recent vacation, Web consultant Subha Subramanian came across this picturesque gas station in Gustavus, Alaska. It's a tiny community, accessible only by air and sea. Here is her "story behind the picture."

Donald Fagen has always been at his best when the forces arrayed against him have sinister motives and shady backstories. As a lyricist, he gravitates to the unseemly side of things, and when he finds them, he morphs into a crime-novel detective.

For the work of an artist best known for the symphonic, soul-baring "Breathe Me," Sia's punchy "Buttons" seems like an odd fit. A hidden track on her new album, the hooky "Buttons" nevertheless runs the risk of defining its album in spite of itself.

Employing the help of producer John McEntire, Thomas D'Arcy's showcases his skill for merging captivating hooks with pensive self-awareness.