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Ellington's music has been a staple of jazz repertoire for decades. Now artists are building on his work and finding midway points between the legend and themselves. One striking example: Jason Moran Plays Duke Ellington.

The internationally acclaimed horseman defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. Roberts spoke with Fresh Air in 1997.

The bill is meant to stifle Russia's economy by allowing for tough new tariffs against major importers of Russian energy. The legislation was led by Lindsey Graham before his unexpected death in July.

This summer's record-setting heat wave is making wildfires in states like Colorado and Utah even worse. And to top it off, private equity investors are even price-gouging firefighters.

In a recent Opinion piece in the New York Times, Nicholas Lehmann wrote that all of a sudden it seems like it’s no longer possible to be comfortably Jewish, liberal and Zionist.

A new political era for Colombia: a hard-right president promises order, growth and confrontation.

A key Republican senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, said he would back Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, smoothing the path for his ultimate confirmation by the Senate.

U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and job gains for the two previous months were weaker than initially reported, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department.

The singer, who had a viral hit last year with "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out," filled his follow-up album, Chuck Timely & The Hourglass, with dive bar jukebox melodies and live instrumentation.

REVISITING THE GAY LIFE is a new audio documentary series from KALW’s QUEER POWER HOUR that takes listeners back five decades and tries to make sense of the earth-shattering years that were bookended by the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS. The series explores that pivotal moment in LGBTQ history through the lens of THE GAY LIFE, a local radio show that aired from 1977 to 84.

Over 1 million people a year die from diarrheal disease. Nearly half are kids under age 5. A new vaccine in trials offers great hope.