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One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon, amid Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history's first American pope on the road.

No one knows exactly when Gramma was born. But if the estimated birth year of 1884 is accurate, Chester Arthur occupied the Oval Office and there were only 39 states at the time.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Luke Goldstein of The Lever, who wrote about the rise of private equity control of youth hockey facilities.

We're bringing back our listener poll to help stick a fork in 2025 and make sense of all the amazing music that came out. So... tell us your top five albums (or EPs) this year.

Fighters have settled across northern Syria, surprising displaced Syrians who've tried to return to their homes. Nearly a year after the war's end, sorting out property ownership remains a pressing issue.

Instead of weekly injections, patients will soon be able to swallow a daily pill to lose weight. Novo Nordisk's pill form of Wegovy is the first to gain Food and Drug Administration approval.

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine's capital overnight, and Ukraine attacked southern Russia, during a renewed U.S. push to end the war.

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.

Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.