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

It started with one song. The Venezuelan tropical rock band Rawayana joined the electro-cumbia Colombian group Bomba Estéreo in a Miami studio to work on a collaborative single. The artists instantly ...

HOMS, Syria — His face is everywhere in Syria. It's plastered on the country's new flags, on sweaters and on the side of buses. His voice, untrained and unfiltered, is ubiquitous, too: used in ...

Just weeks after references to transgender people vanished from the website for the Stonewall National Monument, National Park Service web pages once dedicated to figures such as Marsha P. Johnson and ...

President Trump granted automakers a one-month reprieve from the import tariffs he imposed on Canada and Mexico — avoiding major disruption of the North American auto industry but underscoring the ...

LONDON and TEL AVIV — A Hamas official tells NPR that the United States held direct talks with the Palestinian militant group over the release of several American-Israeli dual citizens taken hostage ...

The winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tuesday, is Liu Jiakun. The prize, established in 1979, is commonly referred to as "the Nobel Prize of architecture." Liu is from ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...

Shortly after Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter in 2022, he sent executives on a mission: Conduct a payroll audit. Musk wanted to verify that all of the social media platform's employees were "real ...

It's not just American consumers who will feel the impact of tariffs — businesses across the U.S. will, too. President Trump imposed steep new taxes Tuesday on imports from three of the country's ...

On Sunday night, "El Mal" from Amelia Perez won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Unlike two decades ago, when a Spanish-language song winning in the category was considered a groundbreaking ...