D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with publisher Michael Szczerban about the new full English translation of the classic Italian cookbook, The Talisaman of Happiness by Ada Boni.

For more than 30 years, Puppetworks has delighted Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood with performances of The Tortoise and the Hare, Pinocchio, Aladdin and, during the holidays, retellings of stories ...

The Trump administration has stated it wants the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule to look more like peer nations such as Denmark. Critics say the U.S. has different health threats.

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About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.

The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday.

Tuesday marks what would have been R&B singer Esther Phillips’ 90th birthday. Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit “Release Me.” That success would ...

Experts are warning that cuts at the federal level are impacting the programs that monitor food safety for consumers.

In Massachusetts, coastal real estate is becoming less attractive as climate change brings repeated flooding to those areas.

The Kennedy Center may be named after former President John F. Kennedy — and now President Trump — but it was first an idea originated by another president.

One of Vince Zampella's crowning achievements was the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than half a billion games worldwide.