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The use of precision technology in farming is gaining popularity, but high costs and connectivity issues are barriers to implementation. Farmers are now looking to Congress for help.

The legislation would create a commission that would study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination, hold hearings and recommend "appropriate remedies" to Congress.

The nearly $1.7 trillion government funding package boosts defense and domestic spending and includes more than $44 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine.

Baron Cohen reflects on the ethics of Boratand why his disguise days are over. John Powers reviews Minari. Law professor Rosa Brooks spent four years as a voluntary member of DC's police force.

Chris Smither has been honing his bluesy, folk-centered acoustic sound for four decades now — and critics and fans say he's getting better with age. Hear his conversation with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards, and listen to five full-length cuts of Smither performing live in NPR's Studio 4A.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could not disagree more on climate change. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, sees it as a real threat while…

On this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, brain injury is discussed

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Music can inspire hearts and minds. But how do music--and rhythm-based therapies--address symptoms of Parkinson's disease … stroke … or autism? Colleagues at the Johns Hopkins ‘Center for Music and Medicine’ talk about the healing power of music.

We’ll go On the Record with a music therapist and the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine. They talk about how music activates more areas of your brain than other therapies … and how it creates a unique space for healing.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes WXPN's John Morrison to discuss billy woods, Thom Yorke, PinkPantheress and more.

With the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as close as it is, the small percentage of undecided voters could have a big impact on the outcome.

We’ll go On the Record with the Washington Post reporter who traced how many slaveholders served in Congress over decades, and with a Johns Hopkins museum curator and a scholar who tell why it’s important to study and honor those who were enslaved at the Homewood estate.

Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom for another of her weekly reviews of the Maryland stage, and today she spotlights the spectacular new musical…

Last December, Martha Jones, a historian at Johns Hopkins University, described in a Washington Post oped how her research had revealed that Johns Hopkins, the namesake of her institution, had owned slaves. Long thought to be an abolitionist, Mr. Hopkins, in fact, claimed at least four men as his property in 1850, and prior to that, had used Black people as collateral for a loan.

We’ll go On the Record with the Washington Post reporter who traced how many slaveholders served in Congress over decades, and with a Johns Hopkins museum curator and a scholar to discuss why it’s important to study and honor those who were enslaved at the Homewood estate.

John Suau, a longtime arts executive, took over as executive director at the start of the year. Midday asks what he plans to do with Baltimore's "Community Museum."

Bob Babb was named Johns Hopkins baseball coach in May 1979, and has since led his team to numerous victories, including 6 trips to the Division III World Series.

February is nationally recognized as Rare Disease Month and to highlight this, Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute, welcomes Dr. Jacqueline Harris, a pediatric neurologist at Kennedy Krieger and Abby Tower, mother of five-year old Bay to discuss rare diseases and in particular KAT6a, a very rare disorder impacting Bay and her family.