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Neil Innes is a singer and songwriter who also was the guiding musical force behind the comedy team Monty Python. His humorous songs carry that peculiar British blend of absurdity and intelligence. Music journalist Ashley Kahn caught up with Innes on his recent American tour.

The Springfield Thunderbirds averaged almost 5,400 fans a home game. That's after not playing at all last season because of the pandemic and is a slight bump from 2019-20.

As jazz critic Murray Horwitz puts it, "Just because a CD is a survey of Christmas music, it doesn't mean that it can't have great music." The all-star lineup of the 1990 album, Jingle Bell Jazz, includes Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted to recommend that it authorize Novavax's two-dose vaccine against COVID-19.

In the latest wave, the highly transmissible omicron variant has moved more quickly than contact tracing allows.

Some rights activists have voiced concerns that the ban could increase Islamophobia in a country where violence and hate speech against Muslims have increased in recent years.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The threat of a terrorist attack against the United States is "still serious but we have made substantial headway since Sept. 11th," FBI Director Robert Mueller says. Al Qaeda has been disrupted continues to operate in "pockets" around the world, he tells NPR's Juan Williams. Hear an extended version of the Morning Edition interview.

Treasury Secretary John Snow resigned Tuesday and President Bush nominated Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr. as his replacement -- another chapter in the shake-up to revive Bush's troubled presidency.

In the second part of our story about WHER, the nation's first all-girl radio station, we hear how the station evolved from all-music to a more news and talk driven format, as the world changed around them.