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In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Actor and singer Billy Porter has been reading, writing and working on music.

Juanda Mayfield, a former school teacher who gave up the classroom for comedy, loves it when she’s on stage in front of a full crowd ready to hear her takes on life, love and the human condition. “I feed off their energy. The more people, the better for me,” she said. “I need that energy.” She harnesses the energy, concentrates it, and then sends it bounding back through her hand-held microphone. Timid is not a word anyone would use to describe Mayfield.

A soul singer from Atlanta, an Iroquois bead artist, West African dancers and an Armenian vocalist are among this year's recipients of National Heritage Fellowship

The ICC recently announced it was looking into war crimes allegations against the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, the Trump administration is pushing back with an executive order targeting ICC staff.

Attorneys tell House lawmakers on Wednesday they perceived political influence in what is supposed to be the independent Department of Justice.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth tells NPR that she'll hold up hundreds of Army officer promotions unless she gets assurance that the Trump administration won't interfere with that of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Four men are scheduled to be executed in the coming weeks, which would be the first use of the federal death penalty since 2003.

We learn all kinds of interesting things when we're at loose ends during a pandemic lockdown. Did you know that Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop co-founded a swing band?

A four-week lockdown will not keep the Easter Bunny from going about its mysterious business, the prime minister says, responding to rampant speculation by New Zealand's youngest citizens.

The president wants a "separate but equal branch" of the military to watch over the final frontier, but only Congress can make it happen.