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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Akash Chougule of Americans for Prosperity about the budget deal that's drawn the ire of fiscal conservatives.

In a tweet, the president said people's lives are being destroyed by "a mere allegation." This week, two White House staffers resigned after reports of domestic violence, which both have denied.

Emerging Chicano musician Cuco talks about what it's like to perform on stage instead of in your room recording YouTube videos, and his latest single "Sunnyside."

KAZU is proud to sponsor Kuumbwa Jazz – presenting the “Miles Electric Band” in Santa Cruz. The Miles Electric Band revisits and renews the music of…

The Winter Games' opening ceremony took place Friday, with 20,000 fireworks, the parade of athletes — and an impromptu handshake between South Korea's president and Kim Jong Un's sister.

Critic Ken Tucker says he former ska/punk musician's new record is filled with "angry confusion," but Rosenstock also reveals himself as a singer-songwriter with a gift for delicate melodies.

Mahoney, who died Sunday, was born in Britain and didn't start acting until he was 37. He went on to appear in films like Say Anything and Barton Fink. Originally broadcast 1990.

In Missouri, the state's embattled governor and GOP legislature are struggling to fund basic services, such as roads, higher education institutions, and health care for disabled. Even some Republicans are worried that the state is following a path that Kansas took earlier in the decade, when the GOP starkly cut taxes — and later had to raise them.

Thousands of jobs with the government dealing with national security and other sensitive issues require applicants to get a background check or security clearance. But the agency conducting the checks has a backlog of some 700,000 applications. Members of Congress say this poses a serious national security risk.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Jeremy Bash, former chief Democratic counsel for the House Intelligence Committee. He talks about the implications for how the committee is separating themselves along party lines.