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Tina Turner, rock and roll icon, dead at 83

The pioneering vocalist, who played a pivotal role in the history of rock and soul music, had suffered a litany of health issues in recent years.

3 years later, the COVID public health emergency is drawing to a close

The nation's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration is ending. Here's what is and isn't changing.

Edith Kanakaʻole chants in the koa forest of Kīpukapuaulu in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in 1977. She titled the photo "The Growth of Love is the Essence Within the Soul."

Edith Kanaka'ole is the first Hawaiian woman to grace a U.S. quarter

"Aunty Edith," as she was known, helped revive the Hawaiian language, hula and chant.

The tension between private thoughts and public personae, in a culture that forces consent to being constantly watched, feels like the guiding narrative of Yves Tumor's sonic and visual world.

Yves Tumor's disruptive pop-cultural synthesis

Rather than proclaiming the present sick on their fifth record, the sensitive Tennessean glam-punk wraps themselves up in its language — pop music.

Myrna Ah Hee reacts as she waits in front of an evacuation center at the War Memorial Gymnasium, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Wailuku, Hawaii. The Ah Hees were there because they were looking for her husband's brother.

Hawaii faces its 'greatest emergency in decades' from Maui fires, governor says

Gov. Josh Green warns that the death toll, currently at 53, will continue to rise.

Ukrainian farmer Mykhailo Liubchenko, 72, says he'll likely burn the field he stands in front of because unexploded ordnance makes harvesting the grain possibly fatal.

Ukraine's farmers face Russia's blockade and explosives on their lands this harvest

Farmers in Ukraine begin to harvest this year's wheat, barley and rapeseed crops as diplomats try to negotiate an end to Russia's Black Sea blockade of exports.

Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

Administrators at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha stopped a class from performing a Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial."

Zhang Meixue, head of a farmer's association in southern Tainan county, walks through one of her former rice paddies. Before the drought, the paddy would normally be filled with enough water to simultaneously raise ducks. Now she's growing flowers in the dried-out paddy to beautify the area and attract tourists.

Epic drought in Taiwan pits farmers against high-tech factories for water

The island is facing one of its worst dry spells in a century, and both the agricultural and high-tech sectors are competing for scarce water resources.

Families grapple with the rising cost of a college education

As college tuition continues to rise, families are figuring out where their kids will go to college, and how to pay for it. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on April 27, 2023.)

People walk into the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the day that the court's majority rejected the once-fringe idea that state legislatures' power over congressional elections cannot be checked or balanced by state constitutions or state courts.

What the Supreme Court's rejection of a controversial theory means for elections

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

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