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She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to strengthen over the next several days and says it could become a hurricane by late Thursday.

President Trump says that the announcement of this year's Kennedy Center honorees will come Wednesday.

Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.

Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that consumers pay. The average cost of living in July was up 2.7%.

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now, Presidents Trump and Putin will meet Friday in Alaska to discuss another war involving Crimea.

"It feels like we're not being considered and we're not being included," says survivor Annie Farmer, who testified against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.