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Musician Geoff Muldaur is a master of American blues, roots, jazz and jug band music. In his newest release, he has classical musicians in Amsterdam give these quintessential American tunes the chamber music treatment.

At age 8, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter learned that her grandmother narrowly escaped the Holocaust, leaving behind her home and parents. The memories her grandmother shared partly inspired the singer's new album, Silver and Ash.

Kentucky officials are still working to confirm deaths from the past week's flooding. Hundreds of people have already been displaced.

If her Prince-assisted '80s hits are all you know of Sheila Escovedo, you're missing half the story. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with the drummer, singer and bandleader and dives in to her early history.

NPR's Juana Summers talks to University of Vermont professor Bader Chaarani about why playing video games might actually have some positive effects on a child's cognition.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

Before addiction consumed Tim Sizemore's career, he was a go-to character actor known for portraying tough guys in movies such as "Heat" and "Saving Private Ryan."

The deficit-cutting supercommittee is the target of intense lobbying efforts. An NPR analysis found that more than 600 separate corporations, trade associations and interest groups have said they intend to lobby around the work of the committee of 12.

Sunday's swearing-in ceremony and speech for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul offers a chance for a reset for a governor still not widely known to New Yorkers.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Miriam Toews, the film follows a gathering of women in an isolated religious community.