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Brooklyn-based jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch talks about how songs by Nirvana, Sun Ra, and Eric Dolphy made her the artist she is today.

DC-based singer/guitarist Mary Timony talks about how the music of Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, and Moondog shaped her own work.

On this episode, the RZA discusses how Isaac Hayes, the theme from Love Story, and a famous hip-hop break shaped his work.

Claire Rousay discusses how tracks by Ryu Hankil, Elliott Smith, and K. Mulhern shaped her work.

In this episode, drummer Brendan Canty discusses how songs by Parliament, Scritti Politti, and King Crimson shaped his music.

In this episode of Essential Tremors, composer Ellen Fullman discusses the influence of traditional Ainu music, Central African polyphony, and composer Pauline Oliveros.

No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio. That's one reason Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the latest GOP candidate to give serious consideration to a White House bid.

John Quincy Adams had one of the most consequential post-presidencies in U.S. history. NPR"s Steve Inskeep asks biographer Bob Crawford how Adams became the ultimate political maverick.

The former speaker of the House says he has never used marijuana. But he says that "if other people use the product, who am I to say they shouldn't?"

Originally published under a pseudonym, Banville's Quirke mystery series follows a troubled Dublin coroner who dwells in the basement morgue of a hospital.

The government shutdown goes on and House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in a Democratic representative-elect. President Trump thinks he has momentum to get a Russia-Ukraine peace deal done.

Johns Hopkins Hospital has placed its director of pediatric cardiac critical care on leave while it investigates anti-Palestinian social media posts from a now-deleted account.

Sen. Richard Russell, whose name is on the building, represented Georgia in the Senate for nearly four decades. Russell's legislative accomplishments were many, but his legacy has a darker side.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with renowned composer and conductor John Williams and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their collaborative album, A Gathering of Friends. It celebrates Williams' 90th birthday.

The author of Station Eleven weaves together stories of a hotel worker and an ultra-wealthy con man in a novel that captures how precarious life is — in a way that feels particularly resonant now.

The 67-year-old former geologist, beer brewer and mayor of Denver points to accomplishments such as Medicaid expansion and increased spending on infrastructure and public education.

The president's Republican allies in the Senate never appeared to warm up to the Texas congressman, and news reports suggested he had overstated his terrorism-fighting qualifications.

HBO's Last Week Tonightended with a surprising display of how, as they put it, "any idiot" can buy and sell other people's debts.

NPR's Lauren Frayer talks with John Vercher about his new novel, "Devil Is Fine," in which a grieving father's sense of reality shifts with a sudden, surprising, and disturbing inheritance.