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Each year, the Tiny Desk Contest attracts thousands of impressive unsigned artists from across the country — including Z The Author, who sent in a song inspired by 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.

The Argentina national soccer team dealt a crushing blow to Brazil in the Copa América finals, winning 1-0. Team captain Lionel Messi had long wanted to bring his team to victory.

When Saad Mohseni returned to Afghanistan from exile, he bought radio and television networks. His programs attract millions. New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta tells Renee Montagne that in Afghanistan, the old media are still new.

The Caldecott Medal winner died of a heart attack on Wednesday. He was known for illustrating over 100 books for readers of all ages, including The Lion and the Mouse and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

As the remaining days of the holiday shopping season slip away, technology guru Rich Dean joins NPR's Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday to offer gadget gift ideas.

Researchers say they have used genetic engineering to create a mouse that is abnormally anxious and aggressive -- a strain that could help explain why some people are prone to anxiety or panic attacks. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on new research published in the journal Neuron. Watch videos of normal mouse behavior, and the violent behavior of a genetically modified mouse.

Theodore John Conrad made off with $215,000 — or around $1.7 million in 2021 dollars — when he robbed the bank where he worked as a teller in 1969, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

Momentum is increasing to change Mississippi's official flag, which includes the Confederate battle flag's saltire.

Next month's benefit concert, hosted by a Washington-based chamber music group, will raise funds for families affected by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds will be donated to Save the Children.

Even as a child, Benjamin Carson wanted to be a doctor. Now a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson believes he owes his success to his mother, a domestic who received only a third-grade education.

As the real museum community waits to watch the movie A Night at the Museum, curators and guards tell of a few strange happenings they've seen in their museum work.

Disney, Sony, Warner Bros., Paramount and Universal are pausing the theatrical releases of their films in Russia