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The president hosted members of Congress from both parties to discuss legislation on school safety and guns on Wednesday. NPR journalists have annotated a transcript of their remarks.

We spoke with Steve Waller from the Grassroots Concert Series in Nisswa recently. The Grassroots Concert Series has been bringing live music to the…

Today we met a new resident to the Grand Rapids Arts scene - the New Director of Strings at the Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program - Pedro Oviedo. He…

This morning we welcomed Ryan Martinson and Sarah James from the Grand Rapids Players summer theater camp. For over a month they've been learning theater…

We talked with Jack Nachbar today - he's a retired professor of film and pop culture from Bowling Green University who curates the Classic Movie Series at…

KAXE/KBXE are proud to announce a fundraiser for Northern Community Radio with the ever impressive Davina & The Vagabonds, Saturday, September 28th at the…

Our friends Nana Boozhoo and Natasha teach us the Ojibwe word we don't want to hear. WII ZOOGIPON. It will snow.It's bound to happen. It's northern…

This Thursday evening at 6:30pm at the Blandin Foundation J. Drake Hamilton, an expert in climate and energy policies at the state and national levels,…

In 2014 The city of Duluth was named the best town in America by Outside magazine. Their mayor, Don Ness, had a lot to do with that. Elected to the Duluth…

In just a few years, Daniel Mueller-Schott, 28, has succeeded in establishing himself as one of the most in-demand cellists in the world. The musician performs a bit of Bach in NPR's Studio 4A.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks explores how one predominantly black neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina, tries to cope with a high incarceration rate…and with the steady flow of returning ex-inmates.

The duo, known for its polished electropop, is in a minimal and abstract mode on this new single.

At turns both spoken and sung, the song revives a Weird Old America standby.

The vocalist got her start singing with Earl Hines and recorded with Clifford Brown. On this 1995 session, Merrill is joined by Marian McPartland for duets on "Home on the Range" and "Don't Explain."

This four-time Tiny Desk Contest entrant's video for "Heaven" looks as gorgeous as it sounds.

Shauf mines the immediacy and intimacy of a telephone call in this yearning ode to communication.

The San Jose emo band punctuates every damning self-reflection with a hook to remember.

A brutal wave of drug violence is ravaging cities near the U.S.-Mexico border, and governments of both countries pointed fingers at each other this week over who's to blame.

A group of chefs in South Philly's Italian Market set out to break the record for world's longest cheesesteak on Monday. The resulting hoagie spanned three blocks and caused some traffic issues.

"Clearly we have not learned how to beat Canada," reports Granma, the official newspaper of Cuba's ruling Communist Party.