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The pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, are not on public display yet. But the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance on Tuesday released the first photos of the pair settling into their habitat.

Aldis Hodge stars as the latest on-screen version of James Patterson's sharp police detective.

Annual inflation proved to be hotter than expected last month, staying stubbornly above 3%. It continues to move in the wrong direction in recent months. Pushing it lower is proving to be hard.

When the U.S. invasion of Iraq began, NPR's Mideast editor Larry Kaplow was a reporter in Baghdad. Looking back now, he writes that the signs and warnings of the chaos to come were all too clear then.

Three years ago, a group of young musicians from Afghanistan and their teachers fled Kabul to remake their lives as a community in northern Portugal. Now, they are touring the U.S.

Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.

Most Palestinians who've been rounded up since Oct. 7 are incarcerated without due process or contact with the outside world, Israeli human rights organizations say. Israel denies abusing detainees.

Italian officials say the bodies of six people who were missing after a sailing yacht sank on Monday have been recovered, along with one body found shortly after the calamity.

Deidre McCalla’s songwriting reveals an unyieldingly honest perspective expressed with a lyric touch that relentlessly celebrates the power and diversity of the human spirit. She learned, at an early age, that life begins with an acoustic guitar. Her first album, Fur Coats and Blue Jeans, was released when Deidre was nineteen and a student at Vassar College. Deidre later studied jazz guitar at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. With five independent albums to her credit, Deidre has touched audiences from Maui to Maine, from church basements and college coffeehouses to Carnegie Hall. A Black woman, mother, lesbian, and feminist, Deidre has long been in the forefront of Black musicians redefining the understanding of how Black folk do folk. Deidre is riding high on her current release "Endless Grace" which dominated the June 2022 Folk Radio Charts as the #1 Album with the #1 Song, "Shoulder to The Wheel" and the #3 Song, "I Do Not Walk This Path Alone," and finished the year as the #13 Top Album. PopMatters, Rhythms Magazine, and the Folk Alley Listener Favorites Poll ranked Endless Grace among the Ten Best Folk albums for 2022. In 2023, Deidre’s song, "Shoulder to The Wheel," won the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Award for Best Folk/Americana/Roots Song, making Deidre the first woman to ever win that category in IAMA history. A much-beloved performer, Deidre has shared the stage with a long list of notables that includes Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Holly Near, Odetta, Cris Williamson, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. She has taught performance at Warren Wilson College’s Swannanoa Gathering, and songwriting at Common Ground on the Hill. Deidre’s work has been published in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, The Original Coming Out Stories, and Chrysalis: A Feminist Quarterly, and she is featured in The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader. Kevin Roth has shared his music with local audiences several times since moving to San Diego a half-dozen years ago. He has impressed listeners with his masterful playing, rich voice, and lyrics that range from profound to hilarious. Kevin began to play the dulcimer in 1972, at the old age of thirteen. At sixteen, he recorded his first album for Smithsonian Folkways Records, which immediately launched him into international fame. Between 1974 and 1984, Roth recorded ten albums with this label, establishing himself as a prominent folk singer and dulcimer player. In 1984, Kevin performed the theme to the PBS-TV children’s show "Shining Time Station," which brought him to another new and much larger market. In 2006, His friendship and collaboration with Noel Paul Stookey, of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary, further cemented Kevin in American folk history. His career has taken him to concert and symphony stages around the world, to festivals, to radio and television shows, and two appearances at the White House. As his career grew, Kevin became professionally and financially successful, winning numerous awards and partnering with prominent companies such as Sony, National Geographic, PBS, Random House, and Time Warner. Then came a sudden diagnosis of melanoma, and it changed his life. He had a choice to accept a death sentence or to live. He chose life. Through adapting and combining techniques from his music and performance practice with others that he researched, he found a simple and powerful method to change how he lived. Kevin discovered how to not just survive, but to become truly happy and thrive. Deidre McCalla's Socials: Facebook | Instagram | X

The Trump campaign, which has tried to disavow the project despite links to it, said in a statement that “reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed."