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Music critic Will Hermes has been won over by the remarkably beautiful, pure voice of Joan Shelley. He reviews her new album, Over and Even.

A Charleston, S.C., judge ruled that Michael Slager will have to remain in jail. Slager, then an officer, was caught on video, shooting Walter Scott in the back during a traffic stop in April.

When Republican candidates take the debate stage later this week, their social media teams will also be tweeting up a storm. NPR looks at social media on the trail.

In Lenz v. Universal, about a YouTube video of a baby dancing to a Prince song, judges ruled that copyright holders must weigh whether use of material is fair use before issuing a warning.

The U.N. refugee agency has received less than half the $4.5 billion needed to help Syrians who have fled to neighboring countries. As conditions worsen, many are opting to risk the journey to Europe.

Almost every state bought new computerized voting equipment after the disputed 2000 election. But the machines are coming to the end of their useful lives, and there's little momentum to replace them.

You can expect to be plastered with promoted posts and ads before, during and after Wednesday's second GOP debate.

For many years people have puzzled over why countries that get richer don't seem to get happier. Now, researchers have an answer.

Steve Inskeep talks to Stefano Bottoni, a historian at the Hungarian Academy of Science, about Hungary's past experiences of migration, and how that influences its present attitudes toward migrants.

Author and screenwriter Richard Russo has selected our third book — a new novel by Lauren Groff. Fates and Furies chronicles a marriage over 24 years. Russo calls it "an incredibly ambitious work."