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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the three sisters who make up the genre-defying band A-WA after they performed at NPR's Tiny Desk.

The keyboardist and singer was a co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers — bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Linda Hudson, mayor of Fort Pierce, a city of 43,000 on Florida's Atlantic coast, as everyone waits to see what path Hurricane Dorian will take.

Google will pay a $170 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General's allegations that YouTube collected personal information from children.

Beyond animals and fun foods, the Minnesota State Fair has a new attraction this year: the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. It's giving away (shredded) money and information about what the bank does.

Thousands will gather in Indianapolis this month for the NCAA Men's Division One Basketball Championships. While welcoming the economic boost, some are concerned about crowds during the pandemic.

June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

The supermoon — the Super Flower Blood Moon, to be exact — brought the first total lunar eclipse in nearly 2 1/2 years.

Its name has ties to strawberry picking season, and when the strawberry moon appears above the horizon, the marginal supermoon will look large and gold.

Muddy Waters' chart-topping 1954 classic stands today as a keystone of rock 'n' roll.

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink had a six-decade career leading major orchestras across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. He was hailed as a musician's musician, prizing the art well above glamor.

A new album, marking the Russian composer's 90th birthday, is packed with probing works for huge symphonic forces.