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U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September, but hiring was weaker than expected. That's according to a new report from the Labor Department, which was delayed because of the government shutdown.

Global pop star Rosalía may stun fans with the direction she's taken on her new album, "Lux." It features a full orchestra, a choir and songs in several different languages.

For the first time in history, the U.S. isn't at the annual world climate conference called COP30. But some countries say they're OK with that. Countries including China and Brazil are stepping up.

More than 25 years ago, Philip Pullman's first novel, The Golden Compass, introduced readers to heroine Lyra Belacqua. Now, more than 25 years later, her story comes to a close in The Rose Field.

Generations of one family's women think they can never keep a man in the new novel "Cursed Daughters." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Oyinkan Braithwaite about the power of negative thinking.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks about some of NPR staffers' favorite plot-driven books of 2025.

Charles (Ted Danson) went undercover in a retirement community in the first season of the hit Netflix series. In Season 2, Charles enrolls in college, and brings along a fantastic new cast.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

CA Prop 36 was supposed to curb petty theft and drug abuse. Is it working? Then, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks to about her new book. And, the deep roots of Bay Area poetry.

This week, BAY MADE is thrilled to share a new series from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism that tries to make sense of the executive orders that continue to flood out of the Oval Office.

President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will be part of the talks after Hamas and Israel agreed to move forward with the first stage of the U.S. plan.

Sept. 1 marks what would have been Pepper's 100th birthday. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation of the jazz saxophonist, who started on clarinet at age 9. Pepper died in 1982.