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The British contralto Kathleen Ferrier was born on April 22, 1912 and died forty-one years later. She is far from forgotten here, but in the U.K. she…

Drummer-composer Antonio Sanchez, who won a Grammy Award Monday for the “Birdman” movie score, will talk about the film at the Esquire Theatre before...

A new report emphasizes significant progress in cutting the number of deaths of children before age 5. But in some parts of the world, the rate is still depressingly high.

You voted! We counted! Here are the results of our 2015 Listener Poll for the year's best albums.

The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries that Changed Our World by Dr. Barry R. Davis discusses the work of people who saw the warning signs of disaster and intervened.

The "Success Sequence" says completing high school, getting a job, marrying and having kids has a better economic outcome than doing those things in a different order.

Jessie Diggins had the highest Olympic finish ever for a U.S. women's cross-country skier.

President Bush says reforming social security will be a top priority during his second term. He wants workers to be able to divert some of their payroll taxes into private accounts. They could invest that money in stocks and bonds to save for their own retirement. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on what privatization could mean, and how it might be done.

Some conservative Ohio lawmakers and some faith leaders who generally support conservative causes want to put millions of additional dollars into more…

United's CEO says the change was a top request from customers. Delta and American followed suit after United's announcement. Airlines are trying to coax wary customers to return amid the pandemic.