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Smithsonian Folkways, known for its broad-based music catalog, wants to surprise you with sounds you didn't even know existed. The treasured American label turns 70 years old on May 1.

Also: Moist Mediterranean air triggered a freak storm in India; Volkswagen's former CEO is indicted over an emission testing scandal; and there's been a deadly shooting at a Nashville mall.

In game theory, sometimes the best way to win, is to lose.

Meet the man who figured out how to reshape national politics by making tiny investments in the smallest of places.

Have hotter days (and nights) changed your daily routines or long-term plans? Has your business had to adapt to higher temperatures?

On this day in 1993, Prince changed his name to that symbol that stood for Love. The Artist formerly known as Prince ended his contract with Warner Brothers in 2000 and then he was just Prince again.

By a 5-4 decision, the court upheld President Trump's travel ban. Read the court's opinion — and dissents — here.

In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld Trump's ban on travel from several Muslim-majority countries.

Today, there's a lot of talk about civility — and incivility — and who gets to define what those words actually mean. So we want to know: how is all of this playing out where you live?

William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg were leading figures in what became known as the Beat Generation. Burroughs was best known as a writer who wrote...