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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., have added another charge against the R&B singer: that in 1994, he paid an Illinois official to make a fake ID that claimed that Aaliyah was 18 years old.

Tasha Smith had been told she had fertility issues, so in May of last year there was unexpected but welcome news. “To my surprise did I not find out I was pregnant, not just with one but with two babies — two fraternal twins. Baby A was Aubrey; baby B was Abe,” said Smith. The pregnancy progressed fine up until late summer when, at week 23, she started severely cramping. The doctor told her not to panic but to come in immediately. “Minutes into getting hooked up onto the machines,” she said, “I was alerted that Aubrey’s heartbeat was no longer beating.”

NPR Music takes over the show to stump for summertime pop hits by the likes of Cardi B, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Drake, Hayley Kiyoko and more.

After forming the group in 1944, Fountain would remain steadfast in his dedication to the gospel form and resist pressure to go more commercial with R&B and rock and roll.

J.B. Pritzker, Democratic nominee for governor in Illinois, has broken the record for campaign self-finance. A lot of money is going to advertising, which isn't making everyone in Illinois happy.

On what would have been Blanton's 100 birthday, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead recounts the ways in which the bassist revolutionized his instrument during his brief time on the music scene.

S.B. Divya's debut novel does what the best science fiction does — establishes a future that's relatable, plausible, and infinitely strange, where implants and wearable tech help humans survive.

Nearly 110 million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19. And delivering each dose requires a complex chain of events. This is the story of one of those doses — and how it ended up in Archie Thomas’ left arm at a church recreation center in Evansville, Indiana.

The R&B star was convicted in New York last year of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, sex trafficking and racketeering.

One possible proposal in President Obama's budget would change the way Medicare patients pay for their care. It's been floated as a possible bipartisan compromise, but it's an idea with a long, controversial and unsuccessful history.