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As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.

Drought in the middle of the country has opened the door for pests and pathogens that can kill trees. That's particularly true of a fungus that's decimating bur oak trees once known as the "King of the Great Plains."

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Belarus' key opposition figure, is free after spending nearly five years in jail. His wife, Sviatlena , talks about taking up her husband's mantle after his imprisonment.

From his deep baritone chest to wonderfully fluttering head voice, Michael Mayo joyfully bends notes to his will.

Polar ice caps are melting. Huge swathes of the world are sweltering under record high temperatures. But how do you talk about climate change to children, the ones who will inherit this changing world of ours?

A federal judge in Boston is weighing arguments from both sides in Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration. Harvard claims the government's freezing of research funds is illegal.

Critics warn that despite President Trump's call to end weaponization of the DOJ, the department has become more politicized in the president's first three months back in office.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Major League Baseball and a presidential push to reverse time.

Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm and well run.

Murders are falling dramatically in many U.S. cities, after a surge in 2020 and 2021. Crime analysts say a reinvestment in communities from both the government and private sources after the disruption of the pandemic is a key reason.

In the film "Weapons," 17 elementary school children vanish. A teacher is blamed. Parents are mystified. NPR's A Martinez talks with actor Josh Brolin about playing the father of one of the missing kids.

This week, a new fellowship was announced that granted 20 jazz musicians of retirement age a gift of $100,000 each.