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NPR's Tiny Desk has a passion for discovering new artists, and today, NPR Music is launching the 10th edition of Tiny Desk Contest.

When we listen to a new musical phrase, it is the parts of the brain that control muscle movement, not areas involved in hearing, that help us remember what we've heard. Keeping the notes in order is a little like getting your muscles to move at the right time.

Over the past two decades, Hollywood fixer Bob Van Ronkel has brought a revolving door of celebrities to visit Moscow, including Steven Seagal, Jim Carey and then-reality TV star Donald Trump.

Last night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, what appeared to be an unbelievable blunder by guard J.R. Smith seems to have cost Cleveland the game. NPR staff recount his mistake.

Every summer, families across America pack into cars and go on roadtrips. Hosts Steve Inskeep and Leila Fadel offer what they blast on their speakers to make the drive less stressful.

In Palm Springs, Calif., the city is trying to make it right for the families that were literally burned out of their homes to make way for developers.

New electric vehicles can be expensive, and tax credits and other incentives to buy them hard to navigate. But one woman in Colorado drove home from a dealership with a used EV for less than $700.

June marks the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted indigenous people U.S. citizenship. But many Native Americans say it wasn't citizenship they wanted — it was sovereignty.

The Hotel Oloffson in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied past, has been destroyed by gangs.

An appreciation of Dame Cleo Laine, a jazz singer whose evocative phrasing and four-octave range made her among the most celebrated voices in the world.