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Saxophonist Bobby Watson brings the sparks on 'Back Home in Kansas City'

After decades in New York, Watson has returned to Kansas City. The core KC jazz values — a swinging beat, a personal style, and an earthy, bluesy sensibility — are firmly in place on this new album.

Iowa environmental groups say draft CAFO rules don't do enough to protect environment

More than a dozen Iowa environmental groups are calling on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to more strongly regulate animal confinements and feedlots.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Wednesday. Putin introduced martial law in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed.

Putin orders martial law in occupied Ukrainian areas as Kyiv's forces gain ground

The move signals Russia's growing frustration over Ukrainian advances in areas the Kremlin claimed to annex. It came hours after Kremlin-appointed officials ordered civilians to evacuate Kherson.

Image from Toiletpaper (December 2012), courtesy of the artists and LACMA Balch Art Research Library. Copyright <em>Toiletpaper</em> magazine (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari)

Art and advertising collide in 'Objects of Desire'

An exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art takes the vocabulary of ads (bright color, shiny surfaces, slick lighting) and manipulates, repositions, rearranges it into fine art.

Lina Abu Akleh sits near photographs of her late aunt, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at their family home in east Jerusalem in July.

The family of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh demands justice

It's been over five months since Abu Akleh was killed on the job, most likely by Israeli forces. Her niece tells Morning Edition about her aunt's legacy and her family's campaign for accountability.

As inflation intensifies, the IRS is increasing the standard deductions for 2023

High inflation means some taxpayers will pay less to the IRS next year, and some will be dropped into a lower tax bracket. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jacob Bogage of The Washington Post.

Milagros Pineda and Víctor Villegas outside their temporary housing in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

The U.S. creates a legal pathway for Venezuelan migrants, but many won't qualify

The Biden administration has announced a new legal pathway to discourage Venezuelan migrants from crossing the border illegally. But many may not qualify because they lack financial sponsors.

Dallas Theater Center on Oct. 4, 2022. The play "Trouble in Mind" is about racism in a white theater company in the 1950s.

Without more federal money, what will regional theaters do?

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

Left: The mug shot taken when Lamonte McIntyre, then 17, was arrested for a double homicide on April 15, 1994. Right: Lamonte McIntyre in September 2022, five years after being cleared of the crime and released from prison.

An innocent Kansas man spent 23 years in prison. His release exposed decades of police corruption

Chapter 2: The Wrong Lamonte. In 1994, Kansas City, Kansas, police arrested Lamonte McIntyre for a double homicide he didn’t commit — sending him to prison for more than two decades before he was finally exonerated. Except McIntyre was a mile away from those Hutchings Street murders. As it turns out, the only evidence police had to charge McIntyre was his first name, and the coerced testimony of two eyewitnesses.

Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents

People living near a company that did work for the Navy had no idea that a toxic solvent, disposed of improperly, had made its way into their drinking water – until a public apology from the state in 2019.

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