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Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride reflects on how movies about his art form — including La La Land and a new Lee Morgan documentary — tend to paint the working jazz musician.

The star of the new Netflix special Lower Classy talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how she writes her Mexican-American identity into comedy, along with stories from her childhood on the border.

Cancer cells, it turns out, reflect light in a particular, polarized way that mantis shrimp can see. A tiny camera based on the shrimp's eye might help doctors better visualize tumors during surgery.

A look at the timeline of events surrounding President Trump's firing of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia's ambassador.

The septet BTS became the highest-charting K-pop group in history this week — but why?

You may think it's a noble idea to photograph yourself helping poor children in a faraway country. A new campaign has a different perspective.

Well, maybe not quite as excited as the U.S. seems to be.

President Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress refuses to fund the border wall he promised during the campaign.

The CIA is notoriously publicity shy. But when it comes to recruiting, you can find the agency's outreach all over the place, from social media to college job fairs, with an emphasis on diversity.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a cultural icon about the time she turned 80 and became known as "Notorious RBG" — a most unusual identity for a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.