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After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.

Last year's biggest winner will try to repeat his wins for song and record of the year, and add album of the year to his trophy case. Other top nominees include Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny.

In a political podcast space dominated by men and displeasure with the Democratic Party, the two women behind the I've Had It show have seen viral success.

The goal: inoculate 90% of girls in parts of Pakistan to immunize them against the infection that causes cervical cancer. "Our biggest challenge was to counter misinformation," says a spokesman.

In 2024, Romania, an upper middle income European country, had over 30,000 cases — putting it on the world's top ten measles list. Its vaccination rate hovers around 60%. How did this happen?

A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.

Cindy Lee Berryhill is a California native singer-songwriter, a founder of the New York Antifolk (acoustic punk) movement, and was welcomed into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame in 2024. She has recorded seven albums and is working on her eighth with the same highly-accomplished musicians who will be performing with her at this San Diego Folk Heritage show (Willie Aron, John Kruth, and Renata Bratt). Cindy Lee has toured and performed shows over the years with The Smithereens, Richard Thompson, The Indigo Girls, X, and more. As Spider Robinson explained, “Cindy Lee writes and sings of some of life’s greatest losses and hardest earned gains with terrifying honesty and the courage of an adventurist who survived her adventures.” Los Angeles-based duo Thee Holy Brothers, comprised of Marvin Etzioni, a Grammy-winning producer, and Willie Aron, an in-demand session musician and award-winning songwriter. They were friends for decades before a rabbi at their synagogue saw them dressed in suits and hats and dubbed them “the holy brothers.” After changing “the” to “Thee,” they recorded their debut concept album, "My Name Is Sparkle," whose main character travels to Jerusalem to find God but finds Elvis instead. With twelve solo albums to his credit, John Kruth is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/composer who plays mandolin, guitar, banjo, flute, harmonica, and sitar. John currently leads the six-piece New York based chamber/rock ensemble The Folklorkestra. As a sideman, John has jammed with Laurie Anderson, Violent Femmes, John Prine, King Missile, Hal Willner, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Swados, Sam Shepard, and Ornette Coleman. Visit: sdfolkheritage.org/events/berryhill-holy-brothers/ San Diego Folk Heritage on Facebook / Instagram

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

This week's publishing highlights are a bumper crop of biography, science and fiction — including new reads the from authors of The Sweetness of Water, The God of Small Things, and Deadliest Enemy.

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday.