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The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.

The union for about 40,000 University of California workers announced that they will stage a two-day strike starting tomorrow morning to push their demands for a new contract.

The NFL's Detroit Lions have hosted a home game almost every Thanksgiving since 1934. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to sportswriter Bill Morris about how the tradition was born.

CDC Public Health Associate Bri McNulty, who talked to NPR about being summarily fired last week, got an email that she had her job back. In the meantime, McNulty got a job offer at Penn State.

A new executive order aims to prevent taxpayer money from supporting people in the U.S. without legal status and targets federal funding for cities and states that support sanctuary policies.

President Trump's executive actions have remade the immigration landscape, leaving many migrants in despair.

The administration fired tens of thousands of federal workers with "probationary" status, apparently because that made them easier targets. But those workers have rights and protections too and firing them may have been illegal.

Today is both Eggplant Day and Chopsticks Day!

Yesterday would have been Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 105th birthday. The Bay Area literary icon died in 2021. He is most associated with books and poetry — and rightly so. But before he published Howl, before he opened City Lights and before the Beats he was part of the World War Two effort.

President Trump and Elon Musk say they want to cut any excessive government spending. That includes sweeping cuts to the federal workforce, even those working in defense and national security.

Fans camp out in the snow weeks early for the Cross-Country World Ski Championships in Norway.

University of California, Berkeley faculty and other campus groups organized a rally calling for the freedom of speech and the right to teach.