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Following a traumatic brain injury, veteran Michael Schneider found that art and music therapy helped him manage his epilepsy and PTSD. Schneider explains that by playing music, he can prevent a seizure.

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

Arts therapies appear to ease brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. Now, artists and scientists have launched an effort to understand how these treatments change the brain.

Macron won France's presidency, but the votes indicate an increasingly divided nation

President Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term at the end of April and sworn in over the weekend. But his right-wing rival Marine Le Pen did better than last time, implying a divided France.

How Lou Stovall took silkscreen-printing from grocery stores to gallery walls

The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum's exhibition "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic wears a face mask as he listens to the national anthems prior to a Davis Cup group F match between Serbia and Austria in Innsbruck, Austria, on Nov. 26, 2021.

Unvaccinated Djokovic says he is out of both the Indian Wells and Miami tournaments

The No. 2 men's tennis player will not be allowed to enter the United States because he remains unvaccinated against COVID-19.

A screenshot from a music video depicting members of the Batswana heavy metal band Overthrust. Tshomarelo "Vulture" Mosaka, the lead vocalist, bottom center, talks to NPR about why his country has been a powerhouse in the African heavy metal music scene.

'Scream for Me, Africa!': How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music

Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in Botswana known as "Vulture."

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 26 in Orlando, Fla.

Jan. 6 panel says it has evidence Trump broke laws in trying to overturn the election

The Democratic-led House select committee says it "has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States."

A man walks his bike through a parking lot littered with broken glass in Bucha, Ukraine.

In Bucha, death, devastation and a graveyard of mines

Images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha shocked the world and intensified concerns of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Officials want more military aid, and bigger consequences for Russia.

Jon Bernthal plays Baltimore police officer Wayne Jenkins on HBO's We Own This City.

HBO's 'We Own This City' is the closest fans will get to a sequel of 'The Wire'

Executive producers George Pelecanos and David Simon first teamed up on The Wire.

Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama, represents the state's only Black-majority district in Congress. She's pictured here alongside Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, and Martin Luther King III, in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 17, 2022.

Federal court says Alabama's congressional map disadvantages Black voters

Blocking the new congressional map from taking effect, a panel of judges says Alabama needs at least two, not one, congressional districts in which Black voters are the majority, or close to it.

A family in an evacuation train says goodbye to a young man at the central train station in the southern city of Odessa. Russian forces have made progress in the south, overrunning the city of Kherson.

A college student in occupied Ukraine says buying food means it's a lucky day

What's daily life like in one of the recently-occupied parts of Ukraine? One college student in the southern city of Kherson steps through his new reality.

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