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The Supreme Court is now holding hearings over a teleconference, making the audio publicly available. Jerry Goldman, the founder of the Oyez Project, offers some guidance on how to listen to it.

Frances Brissey says a car crash last year changed her life — in good ways and bad. But she feels grateful to have been saved by a passing truck driver.

At Taiwan's premier music festival, artists went political with their tunes and lyrics.

Goerke, who's singing in the current Metropolitan Opera Ring cycle, overcame a vocal crisis to become one of today's leading dramatic sopranos.

As a child, the Welsh singer rocketed into success with classical and religious music, and performed for Nelson Mandela and the pope. Now she's back with a new album, One & Two, and a new sound.

Susan Greenstein Prescott's unsung hero is her 12th grade English teacher, Fred DeMayo. He assigned everyone a poem to recite aloud — but she had a stutter. His feedback empowered her life forever.

This year, our reporting took us to museums, libraries and symphonies; to Edisto Island, Hollywood, New York and beyond. Culture Desk reporters say these are the stories that will stick with them.

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling. The elite, no-skips albums of the year.

Ari Berman of Mother Jones warns that a Republican strategy to tighten access to the ballot box could have a major impact on the 2018 elections. "It could be tainted by voter suppression," he says.

President Trump won the congressional district by 20 points in the 2016 election. But the race is close, and Republicans are spending heavily to try to stave off a public relations disaster.

The pandemic has brought many new terms into daily usage. Here are definitions of some of the words used in discussion of the novel coronavirus and how to stem its spread.

U.S. officials say they continue to see signs that Russian forces are moving into eastern Ukraine for what is expected to be a large-scale offensive in the coming days.

States neighboring Yellowstone National Park have eased rules on hunting wolves, resulting in the most being killed in nearly a century

Walshe said his wife left town for a work emergency in January 2023. Investigators found items like a hacksaw, bloody rugs and her COVID vaccine card in dumpsters — and chilling searches on his devices.

Karen Dalton, an enigmatic artist beloved by colleagues Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, and idolized by followers like Nick Cave and Courtney Barnett, is the subject of a new film.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ronnie Lillard, friend of George Floyd, about his reaction to Tuesday's verdict.

Philip Roth, one of the country's most celebrated writers, has died at 85. Roth was known for work that was funny, often gross, and deeply connected to his Jewish roots. He won numerous awards, and was often talked about as a contender for the Nobel prize.

The norteño band became the first major Latin band to play at Folsom Prison since Johnny Cash did in 1968.

There was a decidedly mixed reaction when Amazon Prime Video said it planned to offer the pair as a streaming alternative to the Fox TV broadcast crew of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids aims to make sound more inclusive for listeners by broadening the way in which we experience it.