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This Wednesday, the Iraqi National Assembly elected six weeks ago will have its first session. But talks are still under way to form a government before then, between the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the late 1960s, at the height of his popularity, Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson began work on an ambitious album called Smile. Almost four decades later, the album is ready for release. Bob Boilen sits in on the Smile recording sessions.

The 1999 recordings of a group of American and Cuban musicians took years to be released, despite involving Bonnie Raitt, Mick Fleetwood and others. Bridge to Havana has finally cleared all hurdles.

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

Newport faces a large number of coronavirus cases. Eric Ward says Oregon needs to address hate crimes. And the Rose Quarter I-5 expansion project lost key support.

Kelsey Leonard was taught we are born with a deep connection to water and a duty to protect it. But today, she says, most of us have lost that connection—and the world is suffering because of it.

Bassist extraordinaire, composer, arranger, educator, curator and administrator, Christian McBride, has been one of the most important and most omnipresent figures in the jazz world for 20 years. Sometimes hard to believe considering this man just entered his 40's.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has survived U.S. sanctions, economic meltdown and widespread protests. Now he faces a U.S. armada off his country's coast, so how does he hang on to power?

East Coast brewers have been making unfiltered, unpasteurized, hazy IPAs for about a decade. Their customers love the aromas and murky look of the beers. Now, the hazy beer craze has gone national.

Dead whales used to remain on beaches until they decomposed naturally, but that's not how things work anymore.