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The Abeo Quartet is a rising star with a mission to perform the standard string quartet repertoire and works by underrepresented composers, including composers of color and women. Watch as the quartet performs the sublime first movement of Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat in WOSU Public Media’s Performance Studio.

Trump closed out his appearances at both balls with his signature dance to the Village People's "YMCA," who performed the song live at the Liberty Ball.

People have strong opinions about the best Pixar movies. We asked NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners to vote.

Lots of houses in Nigeria have no numbers, so deliveries are often late. But two techies have devised a solution. And they're creating new jobs in the process.

Ohio’s two U.S. senators say Congress should act on DACA, now that the Trump administration announced it would end the program shielding undocumented young people from deportation. Still up in the air is how both parties might strike a deal. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown supports the DREAM Act, which would open a path to citizenship for people brought to the country unlawfully as children.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WCBE listener Todd LaPlace of Dublin, Ohio.

The New York Times Best Sellers list has been full of anti-racism and social justice books this summer, and the Cuyahoga County Public Library is seeing increased demand for these titles, too. “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo is the most popular, according to Hallie Rich, the library’s communications director.

The Cleveland police department Thursday introduced 15 new positions on the force that it calls CEOs. Three Community Engagement Officers will be assigned to each district. Chief Calvin Williams says the officers will get to know the community down at the street level.

It might be the last year Maria’s Field of Hope, a field of sunflowers off the highway in Avon, blooms in its current location. The Prayers From Maria Foundation planted the flowers in honor of 7-year-old Maria McNamara, who died in 2007 from a cancerous brain tumor. The field is already in bloom this year, earlier than usual, and it continues to be a destination for thousands to visit and learn about its message.

A new report from Georgetown University shows the number of kids in the U.S. without health insurance has increased for the first time in more than a decade. Ohio is one of several states with a “statistically significant” increase in the number of uninsured children. The report says 21,000 Ohio kids lost coverage in 2017 compared to 2016, totaling 125,000 uninsured children in the state.