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On <em>Maps</em>, an album-length collaboration with the producer Kenny Segal, rapper billy woods (in the photo above obscuring his face, as is his custom) offers the collected wisdom of two decades worth of journeys.

It's time to get on the billy woods bandwagon

A longtime hero of the underground rap scene for his worldly, wily lyrics that are erudite and streetwise, billy woods has made his clearest, most engaging album yet with Maps.

Vintage and new items from discount stores may contain lead and can be especially dangerous for children, who often put their hands in their mouths after touching anything within reach.

Whether from an antique shop or discount store, toxic lead items are easy to buy

Lead is regularly found in vintage items more than 40 years old, but also in many new, cheaply made dollar-store goods. Children are especially susceptible to lead-poisoning even at low levels.

The USS Chancellorsville has been renamed the USS Robert Smalls, to honor the enslaved man who stole a Confederate battleship in the Civil War and delivered to the Union forces, loaded with weapons. The USS Robert Smalls is shown here off the Japanese island of Iwo To, on its way to honor the fallen service members of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima.

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

Jesse Leon, author of the memoir, "I'm Not Broken" in an undated photo.

San Diego author's new memoir describes a life violently altered, but 'Not Broken'

The trajectory of Jesse Leon’s life changed after after he was sexually assaulted when he was 11 years old.

At Monday night's Love Rising event in Nashville, Tenn., artists including Allison Russell, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Joy Oladokun and Amanda Shires, along with drag artists, united against new legislation targeting drag performances and transgender people.

'Where am I going to be free to be who I am?'

Due to a new Tennessee law limiting drag performances, many drag artists, as well as trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming musicians, worry about their prospects in Nashville and beyond.

Navigating the housing market: Are you looking to buy a house? Did you buy recently?

If you're hunting for a house or condo to buy, or if you've just managed to buy one, NPR wants to hear from you!

Security officials and rescue workers search for bodies Monday at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

An explosion at a Pakistan mosque leaves dozens dead and more than 150 injured

A powerful blast struck on Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 59 people, according to hospital and police officials.

Students play and talk on the playground at Perkins K-8 School in Barrio Logan on April 7, 2023

Impoverished schools in San Diego forced to stretch federal money to help students

Some San Diego Unified schools are stretching Title I dollars as enrollment declines and the state passes up additional funding.

Construction on the High-Speed Rail over a ramp above Highway 99 in south Fresno on March 3, 2023.

New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red

The latest report from the California High-Speed Rail Authority projects costs for the initial segment at $35 billion, which exceeds secured funding by $10 billion. Other segments of the system are likely to have their projected costs increase, too. The state hopes it will get more federal aid.

The artist duo Brian & Ryan, shown in a May 17, 2022 photo, have created a site-specific series of art interventions at Chollas Lake for Park Social, including their "personas" that reflect the multiplicity of the park: an active person dressed for a workout (Brian Black, shown in yellow), and a nature enthusiast dressed in outdoorsy gear (Ryan Bullis, shown gazing at nature).

'Park Social' to bring art to San Diego parklands

San Diego artists will "activate" the city's park system starting this weekend through November, with a series of installations, workshops and site-specific art — part of a pandemic-era civic arts funding initiative.

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