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We kept coming back to Pop Smoke's Meet the Woo 2, Soccer Mommy's deceptively sunny '90s pop and Makaya McCraven's creative reimagining of Gil Scott-Heron's poetry.

Songwriter Felice Bryant dies at age 77 at home in Gatlinburg, Tenn. She collaborated with her husband to pen some of the best-known tunes in country music and early rock 'n' roll. Her songs Bye Bye Love and Wake Up Little Susie were Everly Brothers standards, just as Rocky Top became a country standard. NPR's Melissa Block offers a remembrance.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Ryan Grepper, creator of a cooler named Coolest, which has set a new record as the highest-grossing Kickstarter campaign.

The leaders of the U.S. intelligence community convened on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss worldwide cyber security threats. They said the problem is only getting worse.

The biggest news this week belongs to singer-songwriter Alex Warren, whose blockbuster track "Ordinary" ascends to No. 1 on the Hot 100 singles chart for the first time.

The top stories for June 19, 2026, including elections officials trying to comply with a court order regarding felons' voting rights, the superintendent of Roanoke City Schools announces her retirement, profiling a repair cafe in event in Charlottesville this weekend, and analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope talk about a potential state budget compromise in their Friday conversation.

The top stories for June 23, 2026, including Virginia lawmakers finalizing a budget plan with new taxes on data centers and a market for adult use cannabis, a new state study shows how AI could eliminate a number of jobs, and former UVA president Jim Ryan talks about his life, one year after resigning from the job.

Xi Jinping will visit President Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., next week, for talks that will reportedly center on economic and other issues.

While Charlottesville Police have received thousands of leads in the case of a missing student, they now have a new responsibility: running the search for…

While six retired military generals have come out in the past weeks calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down, no active generals have followed suit. Time magazine reporter and commentator Douglas Waller offers some historical perspective on speaking out against a senior official.