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A federal panel approves Pentagon plans to close the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon proposes to move most of the operations at Walter Reed to the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital with some services going to a new facility to be built at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Americans honored veterans around the country Sunday in celebration of Veterans Day. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to mourners gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is the 25th anniversary of the memorial wall.

More than 40 artists from two dozen countries are on display at the 21C Museum Hotel in Cincinnati for the exhibit Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and...

A funeral mass took place on Saturday in Washington, D.C. to remember the life of one of the founding mothers of NPR.

The Washington, D.C. area trombonist and composer plays jazz with an island accent, where hard bop vocabulary meets Caribbean rhythms. He previews his next album, Spiritual Awakening, in concert.

We check in with a father and son we met during this presidential campaign season. Jim Bolin is a Republican from South Dakota. His son, Chris Bolin, is a Democrat living in Massachusetts.

With its flashy swagger and quotable one-liners, Empire, the Fox series about a black music label, has become a cultural phenomenon. A watch party in D.C., had just as much.

In an emotional monologue, Silverman addressed "the elephant masturbating in the room" and plumbed the anger and sadness she feels about her friend Louis C.K.'s actions.

Democrats caucused in Nevada and Republicans went to the polls in South Carolina. We know the results now — but here's what the day really looked like on the ground.

The Washington D.C. rapper gives a charismatic performance full of humor, heart and plenty grooves, for the Tiny Desk Fest.