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A surprising controversy has erupted at the university founded by Thomas Jefferson. Some students and faculty members want UVA’s president to stop quoting…

One mosque in central New Jersey is trying to figure out its place in the community — and in America — after the election of Donald Trump.

The pianist, singer and composer's witty lyrics and Southern drawl were favorites of jazz fans and the British rockers who covered his songs, from The Who to The Clash to Van Morrison.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius speaks with NPR's Robert Siegel about President-elect Donald Trump's statements on NATO and Russia, and how the new administration could affect Lithuania.

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, a member of Donald Trump's transition team, discusses conflict within his circle of advisers and his plans to "drain the swamp" with NPR's Robert Siegel.

Demonstrators across the country are protesting against the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline is located near the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. The federal government has halted construction, but the companies building the pipeline have asked a federal court to let them complete the project.

The civilian police commission overseeing the Los Angeles Police Department held a public hearing on Tuesday devoted to the issue of bias in policing.

Donald Trump has championed gun rights, but it turns out, the Obama years have been good for the U.S. gun industry. In Kansas, the prospect of a Clinton win sparked some to spend big on guns.

The new telescope will help discover new galaxies and will observe the hydrogen clouds from which stars and planets are born. But not everyone's happy. 9,000 locals were displaced to make room for it.

The narrator of Zadie Smith's new novel is never named — fitting, for a book about the illusions of identity and the ways people try and fail to know and define themselves.