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Exactly one year ago this week singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was diagnosed with a rare and inoperable form of lung cancer. He has since finished an album called The Wind. Son Jordan Zevon, the album's executive producer, talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

A trove of documents, known as the Pandora Papers, have been leaked and reveal how the world's most powerful and wealthy hide huge sums of money overseas.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to Texas musician Jana Horn about her debut folk album, "Optimism."

Wray faced a wide range of questions by House Judiciary Committee members, most framed as accusations that the FBI pursues a political agenda targeting conservatives.

Since Reconstruction, Virginia has elected only two African American Republicans to the legislature. This year, two young black men running against Democrats might change that.

When Syria's dictatorship fell, celebrations broke out around the world, including in Ohio, where Mohammed al-Refai, a refugee from Syria, lives now. NPR has followed his story for nearly a decade.

In Gaza's southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter and where aid groups have centralized operations, worries have grown over a possible Israeli military operation.

Israel and Hamas are both holding the bodies of those killed on the other side, refusing to release them. They've done so for years and are again using the enemy dead as leverage in the current war.

Investors may have to dig deep into their pockets to claim a giant Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton going up for auction on Tuesday — a first in Europe — that's been dug up from three sites in the U.S.

Los Angeles County is piloting a two-year project to determine if technology such as the Interceptor 007 is successful in capturing waste from major coastal cities, and keeping it from the oceans.