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If you'd like to escape the presidential election, take your banjo or fiddle to this week's Appalachian String Band Music Festival, known as "Clifftop," in West Virginia.

March was another month of solid hiring for U.S. employers with payrolls increasing by 215,000. The unemployment rate actually ticked up a notch last month, but that was because all the hiring drew people off of the sidelines and back into the workforce. When that happens the unemployment rate can go up because there are more people looking for work.

President Obama will announce his choice of a successor to late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at 11 a.m. ET.

The protests began about two weeks ago demanding an end to police brutality. Now, as one activist said, "it has become so many things for so many Nigerians." The government declared a 24-hour curfew.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Lana Del Rey's latest album, and about the dispute she and the artist had on Twitter over her review.

Updated 4 p.m. Friday May 10 : It's one and done for ABC's The Kids Are Alright, the ensemble comedy with Anderson Township native Sam Straley, Variety...

Detroit's Wayne State University has the lowest six-year graduation rate of any public university in the state. But it also has the fastest improving rate in the country.

Dr. Omar Ibrahim is a neurosurgeon at the only working hospital in Syria's south Idlib province. The staff, he told NPR via Skype, has "just moved into the basement [because of] the attacks."

Pointing to a U.S. military video, Trump maintained: "Iran did do it." Meanwhile, the president of the Japanese company operating one of the tankers says he doesn't believe a mine or torpedo was used.

"There's a chance, there's a very substantial chance that it won't work out," President Trump said of the June 12 summit with Kim Jong Un. Trump met with South Korea's president Tuesday.