Part two of our feature on the African Children’s Choir as its tour stops in the Ozarks, Drury University’s new a cappella group Pulse releases its first single and video, The Music Man arrives at Hammons Hall, the Tiny Desk Contest opens, poetry in the Ozarks, and we hear music from J@llen and the SPS All-District Honor Choir.
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APYemen's Southern Transitional Council and its institutions will be dismantled after weeks of unrest in southern areas and a day after its leader fled to the United Arab Emirates. -
Department of InteriorThe use of an image of Trump on the 2026 pass — rather than the usual picture of nature — has sparked a backlash, sticker protests, and a lawsuit from a conservation group.
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Spencer Platt/Getty Images North AmericaU.S. employers added 50,000 jobs in December, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday. Measured annually, job gains in 2025 were the slowest since 2020. -
Matias Delacroix/APVenezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace".
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In the latest movie from Park Chan-wook, the director behind The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave, a paper factory worker loses his job — and resolves to kill his competition for a new one. -
Hundreds of somber demonstrators took to Minneapolis' frozen streets to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Elliot Williams, a former U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, about the Trump administration's narrative around the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent.
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Here's how to send your questions and curiosities to the NPR team covering the Winter Olympics in Milan. -
Plus: What's up with Wicked, Greenland, quarters and Jan. 6? -
One year later, musicians who lost essential instruments and home studio set-ups in the Los Angeles fires are still picking up the pieces. -
From child actor to "Sexiest Man Alive" leading man status, Jordan takes on Hollywood as director-producer and soon may win awards for his performance in Sinners. -
Commissioned by NPR in partnership with Ipsos, the poll also highlights sharp partisan divides on key foreign policy issues. -
The mood in Minneapolis after a fatal shooting by an ICE agent, Portland officials call uptick in ICE shootings a "pattern of violence," Trump says the U.S. could be "running" Venezuela for years.
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The Golden Globe are Sunday night. Revisit some of the nominees that have appeared on NPR's "Morning Edition" this past year.
