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Working with a band of unassumingly outstanding Nashville session players, McKenna finds a balance between literary subtlety and rock 'n' roll swagger.

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency to streamline the state's response to avian flu. More than half of the human cases in the U.S. so far have been in California.

Sesame Workshop is creating educational programming for refugee children around the world. But first, it's doing a lot of homework to make sure the lessons it teaches are the right ones.

An overhaul of the country's immigration laws by Congress is not yet a done deal. One change already in place prevents the deportation of young adults brought to the country illegally as children.

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. That's according to a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

But in a mixed ruling, federal Judge Michael Farbiarz declined, for now, to order Khalil released from immigration detention.

Crawfish frog numbers are on decline due to habitat loss. But scientists in Indiana are working to return species to a historic site.

Some historically Black colleges and universities have seen increases in application and enrollment numbers after years of decline.

The use of corporal punishment is on the decline, but at one high school in N.C., the principal paddles his students himself.

We remember bird watcher Roger Tory Petersn who died last night in his sleep at the age of 87.

It was a big night for the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Lady Bird, and the television miniseries Big Little Lies.

Tourists' absence from the ancient city has made way for the cats, dogs, birds and other creatures to take over.

Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.

Wild turkeys are roaming the streets of Massachusetts towns, even parts of Boston. The birds get up to 4 feet tall, weigh 20 pounds — and they bite. Pierre Verrier, an Animal Control officer in Brookline, Mass., advises residents to stay away from the birds — or "try to hit the turkey with your purse or something."

Alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, nicknamed "the New Bird" for his ability to play fast leads a la Charlie "Bird" Parker, swept on the jazz scene in the mid-1950s. On Somethin' Else, Adderley teamed with Miles Davis to create an album that jazz commentator Murray Horwitz calls "near perfect."

British author Martin Jacques witnessed the decline of the British Empire over his lifetime. He predicts that Americans will have a similar experience as the power of the United States declines in the coming years, yielding to an ever more powerful China. He discusses his new book, When China Rules the World.

More than ever, Americans are getting to work by driving alone. Also: The surprising decline in the share of Americans working at home.

It's significant, according to officials with the Houston Zoo, because the radiated tortoise is a critically endangered species whose numbers are in decline.

The department cited regional changes in the coronavirus pandemic, including significant improvements in some areas and declines in public health in others.

The Syrian government says Israel also attacked the airport, west of Damascus, in December. The Israeli military has declined to comment.