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Highlights of 2024 include albums by Oakland native Fantastic Negrito, Aussie duo Royel Otis, and bluegrass supergroup New Dangerfield.

Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Maggie Smith, who played everything from ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the dowager countess in Downton Abbey, has died at 89.

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

For our series Seeking Common Ground, a landlord and a man seeking Section 8 housing find they agree on something mundane but maddening: the amount of paperwork required to find and manage housing.

The tech titan and President Trump say they will avoid any conflicts of interest, but it's difficult for the public to verify that.

Minutes after a UC regents committee began debating the purchase of additional less-lethal weapons and ammunition on Thursday afternoon, pro-Palestinian students in the UCLA meeting room drowned them out.

Shell casings with the cryptic words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were found at the scene of the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO outside of a Manhattan hotel, police officials say.

People in Plains, Ga., are remembering former President Jimmy Carter who died on Sunday at the age of 100. Carter embraced his hometown and never forgot the importance of the place.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, which filed for bankruptcy last year in the wake of hundreds of child sex abuse lawsuits, said Sunday that it will create a survivors' trust to compensate victims of the church.

Not motivated to get to the gym? NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff explores how functional exercise, such as gardening or taking care of chickens, racks up steps and squats.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnya about her husband's posthumous memoir Patriot and how her role has changed since his death.

Remi Wolf may be a superhero who isn’t entirely aware of her powers.