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NASA's Sonification Project is a collaborative effort to turn data collected from the outer reaches of the universe into sounds. Their album, Universal Harmonies, is out March 10.

Mozart's enigmatic story of a serial womanizer has both comic and dramatic elements.

A key Senate committee defies President Bush on the question of how to try suspects in the war on terror. With four Republicans joining the Democrats, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved an alternative to the president's proposed rules.

A new law that went into effect in January requires U.S. citizens to have a passport when traveling to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The change created demand that is peaking now that spring break is here and summer looms.

President Bush talked today about his meetings in Baghdad with the new Iraqi government. Fresh from his surprise visit to the Iraqi capital, the President held a previously unannounced news conference in the White House Rose Garden.

A winning ticket has been sold in Los Angeles for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the 3rd largest in the history of the game.

The Justice Department's inspector general has told lawmakers that he is investigating whether one of the agency's lawyers was dismissed over a rumor about her sexual orientation. The inquiry is part of a larger examination of personnel practices under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Pat Benatar and her husband Neil Giraldo about their 35 years as a music-business power couple.

The British rapper made a trip all the way from the UK just for this Tiny Desk performance and powered through a set that made the personal political.

Most hospitals make little effort to screen patients for tobacco use or to help smokers kick the habit permanently. That's a missed opportunity. Starting this month, though, hospitals can choose to adopt tobacco-cessation measures to help them comply with accreditation standards.