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This is the 101st year of the national spelling competition, and the third time it's been decided by a rapid-fire "spell-off" since the practice was introduced in 2021.

In a conversation with Norman Lebrecht, (available here for five more days) the respected director of the Mariinsky Theatre (and conductor of many…

ProMusica cellists Marc Moskovitz, Cora Kuyvenhoven, Nathaniel Chaitkin and Joel Becktell will be in the Classical 101 studios with Boyce Lancaster this…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney emerges victorious in Michigan primary. The former Massachusetts governor wins by a margin of 9 percent over John McCain. Now three different Republican presidential hopefuls have won each of the three major contests.

A new Quinnipiac University poll has Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by one point in Ohio. When third-party candidates are figured into the equation,…

Watch Mike Pence and Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City beginning at 9 p.m. ET for debate updates and fact checks.

Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, surrendered to the invading U.S. military in 1989. He holed up at the Vatican Embassy, and gave up after being subjected to days of deafening music.

The first Academy Awards given for music in films, a practice that began in 1934, named only the head of the music department of the studio instead of the…

Twenty years after the bombing in Oklahoma City, the U.S. views security and privacy in a very different way. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to correspondent Dina Temple-Raston about the changes.

A federal appeals court has reversed an order that forced Google-owned YouTube to take down a trailer for a controversial anti-Muslim video last year.