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Lawmakers in Alabama are taking up an abortion bill Tuesday. If passed, it would be the strictest in the nation and its backers hope it paves the way for a Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Amy Howe, of the SCOTUSblog, about Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who warns his colleagues are too eager to overturn rulings that deserve respect as precedent.

Americans with the most extreme positions on abortion may define the public debate, but their views are a small minority in the United States according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Is Chief Justice John Roberts showing that this court can rise above partisanship?

Pride died Saturday from complications of COVID-19 in Dallas. The baritone-voiced singer was the first Black man inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

"At this time, we have no evidence that infections by this variant cause more severe disease," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Peacock could seemingly adapt to any style, and performed with a variety of artists ranging from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett to Albert Ayler.

NPR Music staffers Marissa Lorusso and Tom Huizenga give out superlatives for the best moments in music this past year, including a single breath of operatic singing and an epic guitar solo.

For two decades, some of Afropop's hottest sounds have come out of Brooklyn. Duke Amayo and Martin Perna of the band Antibalas talk about their latest release, Fu Chronicles.

As part of NPR's series One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs, Guy Raz recommends "Ascension Day" by Talk Talk. The group is mostly known for its 1984 hit, "It's My Life."