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Coming off of a fabulous weekend of performances featuring Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and a world premiere by Aaron Jay Kernis, you'd think ProMusica Chamber…

Officials say D-N-A evidence used to connect a suspect to a series of rapes sat untested for more than two years because authorities didn't have money to…

A recent ruling halts federal funding of stem cell research. Diabetes Research Institute scientific director Dr. Camillo Ricordi, M.D. and Sanford-Burnham…

The symphony we know as No. 35 in D by Mozart from 1782 and called the Haffner Symphony, was actually his second major composition written for the…

[video dead] Last time, I wrote about Vincent d'Indy and his Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Sept. 22), mentioning that another "one work composer" was…

Students at the world's only university for the deaf, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are unhappy that Jane Fernandes was chosen as the school's new president. What lies behind the demonstrations?

I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide, pleads not guilty to charges against him in a case probing who revealed the identity of a covert CIA agent. He was arraigned in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges of obstructing justice, perjury and making false statements.

Protesters demonstrating against President Bush's policies on the event of his second inauguration speech are confined to a small area along the parade route, and the central Washington, D.C., area is all but closed down amid very tight security. Hear NPR's Alex Chadwick and NPR's Larry Abramson.

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel's parliamentary elections. Kadima won 28 seats in the 120-member parliament. Olmert says he'd prefer a peace deal with Palestinians, but is ready to act unilaterally to define Israel's final borders.

In softcover nonfiction, Elizabeth Cline explores the high costs of cheap clothing, D.T. Max sheds light on the life and death of author David Foster Wallace, and Marco Roth reflects on his intellectual upbringing on New York's Upper West Side.