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The best-selling novelist shares tips for good writing and the stories behind some of the most meaningful music in her life, from Rossini to the O'Jays.

A Mexican soccer team kept making it to the league championship finals and then losing, leading people to use their name as a verb meaning "to blow it at the last minute." Last weekend, they won.

With the school year about to end, NPR's Scott Simon ponders how quickly children grow up and become their own persons.

Nicaraguan authorities arrested Cristiana Chamorro, President Daniel Ortega's key opponent in upcoming elections, and barred her from running for office after accusing her of money laundering.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the Rev. Thomas McKenzie and Imam Rizwan Ali about the impact the pandemic has had on them and their congregations.

Today is Walter Harper Day – honoring the mountaineer and guide who was the first person to climb to Denali’s highest summit. Alaskans are celebrating the…

Tom Jones performs songs from his new album, Surrounded By Time for the first time in his triumphant return to the Tiny Desk.

A massacre in the West African nation of Burkina Faso has left at least 130 people dead. It was the country's deadliest attack in years.

A luxury building in Hong Kong says it sold one of its coveted parking spots for $1.3 million, breaking the record for most expensive parking spot. That breaks down to almost $10,000 per square foot.

Live performing-arts events are returning, but Desert In, a sexy mysterious streaming series assembled by a starry cast and crew for Boston Lyric Opera, asserts that digital opera is here to stay.