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Jon Batiste performs at the Newport Folk festival on August 5, 2023. Batiste, a riveting live performer who has led the band at <em>The Late Show</em> and won an album of the year Grammy, just released a studio album, <em>World Music Radio</em>, that feels like an attempt to consolidate his billowing talent into a stable unit, like squeezing a genie back into the bottle.

When the world's your stage, can an album capture the feeling?

New albums by Jon Batiste and Louis Cato arrive with high expectations. Both — as their experience leading led the band at Stephen Colbert's The Late Show has proved — are stellar live performers.

NPR's head of programming, Anya Grundmann, is leaving the network at the end of the year.

NPR's podcast and programming chief Anya Grundmann to leave after 30 years

NPR's top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, will leave at the end of the year. She has overseen numerous hits for the network, including Tiny Desk.

'They Live In My Head' is as vital any album the Bush Tetras have ever made

Bush Tetras formed in NYC in 1979, at the height of the punk era. Decades later, the band brings a sustained energy to a new album, an urgency to get things said and to make some different sounds.

A worker from the Coachella Valley Water Department surveys debris flowing across a road following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Monday.

Tropical Storm Hilary moves on from California, leaving a trail of damage and debris

The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in more than 80 years sparked road closures, school cancellations and power outages on Sunday evening before moving north to Nevada.

Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during the 2023 LA Pride in the Park Festival. In the first episode of its second season, the <em>Louder Than A Riot</em> podcast examines the backlash Megan faced after being shot by rapper Tory Lanez.

'Louder Than A Riot' reckons with hip-hop's past and looks to a more inclusive future

Podcast hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael say despite the misogynoir that has plagued the genre, hip-hop is poised for change. "The girls and the gays are running things," Madden says.

This photo, purported to be of the Loch Ness Monster, was taken near Inverness, Scotland in 1934. One of the participants revealed on his deathbed that the pictures were staged.

Monster hunters are conducting the largest search of Loch Ness in more than 50 years

There have been more than a thousand official sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, the Loch Ness Centre says. Nessie enthusiasts are deploying new tools this weekend to try and prove it's real.

Matiullah Wesa, cofounder of the education charity PenPath in Afghanistan, speaks to children during a class next to his mobile library in a district of Kandahar Province. Wesa and his brother were among the Afghan men who have called for the Taliban to reverse its bans on higher education for girls. He was arrested in March and has been held in prison since then with no formal charges.

Angelina Jolie urges support for jailed Afghan man who championed higher ed for girls

It's been 5 months since Matiullah Wesa, an activist who urged an end to Taliban bans on girls' education, was arrested. Media attention has faded. Now Angelina Jolie is making a plea in his behalf.

Spain's Olga Carmona points to the message she had written on her undershirt to honor the death of one of her best friend's mother after scoring what would be the only goal in the match against England on Sunday. Carmona later learned that her father had died before the final match.

Spain's Olga Carmona learned her father had died after she won the Women's World Cup

"Yesterday was the best and the worst day of my life," wrote Carmona, who scored the only goal in Spain's historic win over England.

MCPO Investigating Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian

FREEHOLD – An incident in which a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Keyport over the weekend is under active investigation, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced Saturday.

Marine scientists Jan-Olaf Meynecke attaches video-enabled tracking tags to humpback whales near Brisbane, Australia. While collecting data for a larger project on the whales' migration patterns and climate change, Meynecke and his colleagues discovered a new behavior they call "sand rolling."

This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social

The footage of humpback whales exfoliating their skin with sand offer new insight into these animals' complex lifestyles deep beneath the ocean

The Joan Dancy and PALS Foundation

The Joan Dancy & pALS (People with ALS) Foundation serves ALS patients and their families in central New Jersey by providing support and services to improve their quality of life on a day to day basis.

Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before

Cartoons like My Neighbor Totoro and Dragon Ball Z introduced me to anime — and started an ongoing love for the artform and its stories that explore what it means to be human.

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