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April 30th is International Jazz Day. Jazz Night in America tapped photographer Deneka Peniston to share scenes from recording sessions featuring jazz artists who are shaping the music today.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh returns to the witness chair today after a marathon round of questioning that lasted more than 13 hours Wednesday.

Buried under the drifts in Washington, D.C., we turn to artful descriptions of snow from some favorite writers — in the hands of a good storyteller, snow can be magical, or monstrous. We sample works from Ezra Jack Keats, Laura Ingalls Wilder and, of course, Robert Frost.

Hall Overton was a tall, modest, Midwestern, chain-smoking college instructor of classical music at Juilliard. But at the Jazz Loft, he was living, teaching music and playing piano with greats like Thelonious Monk.

The Dove & The Wolf, "Seven Days"

Commentator Baxter Black sings his version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

On the fifth day of Christmas, Ask Me Another gave to me: Jonathan Coulton in a tux! Check out this old photo we dug up of Coulton's days as a Whiffenpoof (That's a collegiate a cappella group...not a type of exotic bird.)

EARTH DAY BEGAN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES 25 YEARS AGO, AND PHILIP DAVIS TAKES A LOOK AT THE STATE OF CURRENT STUDENT ENVIRONMENTALISM.

Bob Edwards looks at what Veterans Day means to some Americans.

Commentator Marion Roach tells the story of a cross-town Thanksgiving Day taxi cab ride.