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We drove out to two small cities in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District to ask voters about their views ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.

Coal is booming. Coal is dying. Both sentences are true to some extent, as Kelly McEvers and Chris Benderev found out while reporting from central Appalachia for the podcast, Embedded.

Nearly all of Ohio’s Democratic lawmakers in the Ohio legislature have already received COVID-19 vaccines or plan to do so in the near future. Across the aisle, many Republican legislators have or are doing the same.

Session musician Stephen Bruner has played bass in other people's bands for more than a decade. He can play metal, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. With his second album, he's stepping to the front of the stage.

COVID-19 defined the high school experiences of many students entering college this fall. "I went from 16 to 18 in a blur," says one freshman.

In a candid interview, the ever-innovative pianist traces the lines between Buddhist chants, Sly Stone and Miles Davis, while shedding new light on some hard facts about his past.

Did you know what post-incarceration syndrome is? An Ohio researcher spoke with WYSO this Mental Health Awareness Month about her advocacy to have the mental illness formally recognized.

The Department of Homeland Security had earlier said eight people on a flight out of the U.S. had been convicted of crimes in the United States and that they couldn't be brought back.

In the era of #Time'sUp and #MeToo, women continue to struggle in the world of country music. Many are taking matters into their own hands and bypassing the industry's gatekeepers.

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in Minneapolis.