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Hip-hop artists in Senegal have a long history of playing a pivotal role in presidential elections. What was their impact in 2024?

Spats among Texas Republican lawmakers and leaders are routine. But now the disputes mirror the national struggle within the GOP.

Japan's leading video company Nintendo is about to open a museum -- an unusual step for a company that rarely explains itself. The museum opens Wednesday in Kyoto, the company's hometown.

The duo of a veteran producer and a former physics professor, the children's band was inspired to make its debut album by the nonsense songs sung in the members' own households.

When even a tiny garret in a major city is crushingly expensive, the ideal of the "starving artist" has shifted since the days when poverty was held up as ennobling.

Horsegirl's sophomore album, Phonetics On and On, is a compulsively replayable record full of arrestingly catchy, bare-bones songwriting and twee treasures.

A race-based calculation to determine kidney function left many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist than they should have been. NPR's A Martinez talks to one man who was moved ahead.

After an already-slow spring, movie theater attendance over Memorial Day Weekend was the lowest in decades, apart from 2020.

If a candidate has written a book — like Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann — the campaign trail presents many opportunities to promote it. These candidate books are a time-honored tradition: The all-time sales champ is Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope.

The South Korean director is best known for socially conscious horror movies, such as The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. His latest, Parasite, was just nominated for three Golden Globes.