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MLB The Show 23 Review: Negro Leagues storylines are a tribute to baseball legends

The long-running baseball video game features a new mode that celebrates historical Black all-stars and offers a much-requested single-player experience.

<em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by Russian officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Thursday. Russia's Federal Security Service said its agents detained Gershkovich in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, accusing him of trying to obtain classified information.

The U.S. condemns Russia's arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter

Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was on a reporting assignment in the Ural mountain city of Yekaterinburg when he was detained by agents from Russia's Federal Security Service.

Portrait of Myrlande Constant courtesy of Faena Art.

Myrlande Constant exhibition honors the labor of working-class artists

A retrospective of textile artist Myrlande Constant has opened at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Curators say it's the first solo show of a Haitian woman at an American museum.

Our Planet Money team creates a record label to follow the money to music creators

How do artists get paid for a song in the age of streaming? Our Planet Money podcast team decided to become a record label and release a song to find out.

Marianne Sinisi, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, lost her 26-year-old son, Shawn, to an opioid overdose in 2018. She wants the opioid settlement dollars to be spent in ways that help spare other parents similar grief.

As states start to get opioid settlement cash, few are sharing how they spend it

All told, drugmakers and distributors will pay over $50 billion to communities harmed by opioids. An investigation finds that only a dozen states are letting the public see how they use the money.

Rapper Doechii planned for the song "Crazy" to be her industry coming-out party — but the music video, with its focus on Black femme bodies, ran afoul of an unspoken rule.

'I'm coming to y'all with no armor'

Rapper Doechii hoped her video "Crazy" would make a statement by presenting her nude body as a vessel of power, not sex. YouTube saw things differently.

New NPR poll examines top issues for Americans

The economy still takes the top spot as the most pressing concern, but preserving democracy continues to rank high in NPR's polling, an aberration in American history.

Yang Bing-Yi started the Din Tai Fung restaurant with his wife in Taipei in 1972. From there, the restaurant grew into a chain of more than 170 locations around the world, known for steamed soup dumplings.

Yang Bing-Yi, patriarch of Taiwan's soup dumpling empire, has died

The cofounder of Taiwan's famed Din Tai Fung restaurant chain died at 96, his company announced March 26. He helped turn delicate soup dumplings into a global phenomenon, even earning Michelin stars.

Items are left at a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Covenant School after the mass shooting.

74 people have been killed or injured by guns at American schools this year

The fatal school shooting in Nashville this week is part of what one expert describes as an "astronomical increase" in violence on school campuses since the pandemic.

A fire inside a detention center kills dozens of Central and South American migrants

NPR'S A Martinez talks with Rafael Velásquez of the International Rescue Committee about a fire that killed 38 people at a Mexican migrant detention center near the Texas border.

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