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NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, about the terrorist attacks in Belgium, the recent targeted killing of a man described as senior figure in the Islamic State, and the Obama administration's strategy for defeating the terrorist group.

The 75-year-old actress and singer may be best known these days for her roles as the overbearing ethnic mother in a number of comedies, but she's built a career while living life on her own terms.

A political cheating scandal has once again hit the pages of the National Enquirer — and it has roiled the 2016 presidential campaign even though none of the allegations have been substantiated.

For those hoping to capture an aerial shot of the famous tidal basin surrounded by an army of cherry blossom trees in full bloom, well, too bad.

Airs Saturday, March 26, at 12 noon. The 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Mozart’s Le Nozze di...

Designer and sculptor Harry Bertoia spent the final decades of his life creating mesmerizing "sonambient" music out of big metal objects. An 11-CD collection of his recordings has just been reissued.

Public figures face high bar to prove libel, and the GOP presidential candidate will have to overcome decades of precedent to overturn law

Just days after Gov. Rick Snyder outlined a plan to target Flint's short-term, intermediate- and long-term needs, a task force that he appointed blamed his administration for much of the problem.

Lyndsay Faye's new Jane Steele reimagines the classic Victorian heroine as a killer with a heart of gold, who refuses to settle for her historical lot and strikes out at men who try to abuse her.

A group of synthetic biologists report they've created an organism with a minimum number of genes required to survive and reproduce.