The average home loan rate has dropped below 6% for the first time since 2022. Will that help thaw the frozen housing market?

Ca$ino, the rapper's second album for his cousin Kendrick Lamar's label, is whiplash embodied, a mirror for the extreme highs and lows of his Sin City hometown.

New York Times journalist David Sanger discusses how we got here, the state of Iran's nuclear weapons program, the likelihood of U.S. military force against Iran and if Trump's goal is regime change.

You might blast your favorite album to escape the stress of daily life as a form of catharsis. You can certainly do that with Cutthroat, the latest album from U.K. band Shame.

In the mid to late 1990s, the U.S. music scene saw a boom of songs created by European dance artists that used English as a second language and became legitimate hits, despite not really making any ...

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U.S. and Iranian officials are set to meet today in Geneva to discuss Tehran's nuclear program. And, Harvard professor Larry Summers is resigning over ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

When Weird Al’s debut single, “My Bologna,” came out, there wasn’t really a model for how a parody artist could have any longevity in their career. Yet Al's figured out how to stay popular for over ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with John Bolton, a national security advisor in President Trump's first term, about the prospect ...

U.S. and Iranian officials will meet Thursday for a third round of talks after President Trump warned of an alleged Iranian threat during his State of the Union address.

U.S. and Iranian officials are meeting in Switzerland for another round of high-level talks. The talks will focus on Iran’s nuclear program, but the U.S. also wants ballistic missile ...