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Two albums released the same day — Jill Scott's return from a long absence, and Brent Faiyaz's play for a mid-career pivot — offer opposing visions of artistic advancement in the genre.
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Bad Bunny and J. Cole rule the pop charts
These days, the Super Bowl halftime show is a massive driver of the streaming, airplay and sales that fuel the Billboard charts. This week, Bad Bunny benefits from that influence.
Reporter's notebook: My Olympic Lunar New Year
An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.
Michael Pollan says AI may 'think' — but it will never be conscious
"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.
In a thrilling comeback win, U.S. women take home Olympic hockey gold over Canada
For much of Thursday's final, it seemed Canada would refuse to relinquish the throne of Olympic women's ice hockey to this younger American squad. But the U.S. found the grit to topple them, 2-1.
Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world's biggest company by sales
In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.
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NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on how halftime shows significantly influence listening habits.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sky and Amanda Roberts, family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, now that the former Prince Andrew has been arrested by police in the U.K.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Myha'la and Ken Leung of HBO's Industry about the show's fourth season.
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The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara Downes and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. -
A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of voters. -
Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports. -
A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but can currently live with family members who do. -
A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being sent to the front lines. -
The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the Biden administration. -
As President Trump's Board of Peace prepares to meet for the first time Thursday, he says the group has raised $5 billion for Gaza reconstruction. But key challenges remain.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Middle East expert Aaron David Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the prospect of lasting peace in Gaza.
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Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.
