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The Cleveland Orchestra steps onto the national stage in an episode of the PBS program, “Great Performances,” Friday night. The show focuses on the orchestra’s 100th birthday last year, which was marked with both celebratory events and high-profile terminations. Andre Gremillet, president and CEO of the orchestra, sat down at ideastream for an interview looking back at 2018.

France's Oscar contender for best international feature this year is titled Les Misérables. But it has nothing to do with Victor Hugo or the musical — this one is inspired by the 2005 Paris riots.

U.S. employers added 136,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. That's a sign the labor market is holding up, even as economic growth slows.

The move by Eli Lilly came less than 24 hours after Johnson & Johnson paused further dosing in all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials while it investigated a volunteer's illness.

Updated: 8:24 p.m. Dec. 2, 2019 The City of Cleveland will delay adoption of Cuyahoga County’s ban on retail plastic bags, but only by six months instead of the full year originally proposed. Under the amended city council legislation easily approved Monday night, a Cleveland working group will have until July 1, 2020, to propose possible citywide rules for disposable bags. That’s also when Cuyahoga County plans to begin collecting fines from retailers for giving out plastic bags to customers.

The 1.5 million-year-old fossils of human ancestors recently unearthed in Ethiopia show sophistication in behaviors and tool use, said the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers who found them, despite one example having the smallest cranium of any specimen found in Africa to date. One Homo erectus female cranium found is a little less than half the size of our brains, said CWRU anatomy professor Scott Simpson, who worked with the team that discovered the fossils.

The Hamilton County prosecutor's office will seek the death penalty in the case against the man accused of striking and killing Springdale Police...

David Greene talks to Hawaii Governor David Ige about how his state is preparing for Hurricane Lane. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane.

Georgia O’Keeffe is a rock star in the art world. A new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” celebrates her as a celebrity, featuring her fashion and photos alongside her art. It may surprise some that O’Keeffe’s style of dress was more subdued than her bright paintings of flowers and landscapes. The exhibition curator, Wanda M. Corn, said that was by design.

NPR's David Greene talks with Linda Rivas, an immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas, about the difficulties of reuniting parents separated from their children.