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The unabashedly earnest and sentimental folksinger stops by the NPR Music offices for an intimate glimpse of three sweet songs from his new album, Grass Punks.

A day after the city erupted in riots, demonstrators took the streets. This time, the atmosphere felt more festive than angry.

Civilian volunteers with boats have been out in full-force in Louisiana over the last couple of days to help rescue neighbors after a storm system caused massive flooding.

It's National Poetry Month and listeners have been submitting Twitter poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. Graphic designer Kat Wedmore wrote about her connection with the show Jeopardy!

Kyle Odom had been sought for the weekend shooting of Tim Remington, who had led a prayer at a Ted Cruz campaign rally and was shot the next day.

The break in action is to give armed separatists time to lay down their weapons, President Petro Poroshenko says.

Wisconsin voters will not have to present a photo ID in order to vote in November's election. The Supreme Court has blocked the law, at least for 90…

According to U.S. Census data, 62 percent of women who've been giving birth held jobs at the time. Despite improvements in recent decades in attitudes and treatment of women in the workplace, many still face discrimination when the boss finds out they are pregnant.

Lourdes Cereno Markley was born in the Philippines. As a young woman in the 1960s, she was determined to attend college in the United States. She recently talked with her daughter, Julia, about the bold move that made it happen.

Fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border has been punctuated Saturday by confrontations inside Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerillas. The ground combat came in addition to continuing Israeli bombardments of Lebanon, and Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.