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Regina Carter, Kenny Garrett and Louis Hayes named 2023 NEA Jazz Masters

The trio of players, all from Detroit, along with producer and author Sue Mingus, will be celebrated in a tribute concert next spring.

Highland Park community honors shooting victims at a vigil

The city of Highland Park is held a candlelit vigil Wednesday night at city hall to honor the victims killed during the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade.

Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc, said the hateful messages were discovered early Sunday morning.

Community unites after an LGBTQ+ senior housing project in Boston was defaced

Vandals defaced the perimeter of the construction site over the weekend, spraying hate-filled messages and death threats on banners and posters. They included threats saying, "We will burn this."

These canines are some of the nearly 500 beagles that Homeward Trails Animal Rescue collected earlier this year from an Envigo research facility in Virginia. Now Homeward Trails is taking in additional beagles from Envigo, which bred the dogs for pharmaceutical research, after a federal judge ordered thousands of remaining dogs to be released.

Animal rescue groups across the U.S. band together to rescue 4,000 beagles

A federal judge ordered thousands of dogs to be rehomed from a Virginia research facility after several inspections revealed poor conditions. Animal rescue groups are working to do just that.

Alphajets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Champs-Elysees avenue during the Bastille Day parade on Thursday in Paris. France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe.

The war in Ukraine is playing a special role in France's Bastille Day parade

France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside Eastern European allies touched most closely by the war in Ukraine.

Write a poem to a friend for NPR

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

The U.S. student population is more diverse, but schools are still highly segregated

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System with the hit Capcom beat 'em up game <em>Street Fighter II</em>.

A super fan collected every Super Nintendo game manual and made them free

Kerry Hays has crowdsourced the manuals for upwards of 850 unique Super Nintendo games and made them free on an online archive.

Drugmaker HRA Pharma has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve an over-the-counter birth control pill called Opill. The agency's review process is estimated to take about 10 months.

Over-the-counter birth control pills are available worldwide. The U.S. may be next

Birth control pills are available in the U.S. only with a prescription. Now a drugmaker is asking the FDA to approve a progestin-only contraceptive that would be available without one at pharmacies.

"You have the proportions of a model," the fitter tells cleaning lady Ada Harris (Lesley Manville). Her reply: "Model railway, more like."

Dreaming of Dior, a charwoman follows her bliss in 'Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris'

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London sets her heart on a designer dress in this charm-filled adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 novel.

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