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Daniel Nieh used to be a model and a translator. He says both of those professions went into his debut novel, a page-turner about a college basketball player unraveling his Chinese father's murder.

Robert Morgenthau, the patrician lawman who a former aide said spent four decades "making mischief for people who engaged in bad conduct," died Sunday at age 99.

Disney’s box-office domination continues with its remake of "The Lion King." The modern CGI looks beautiful, but does the story fall flat?

Tiny Changes — a collection of covers from Frightened Rabbit — is intended as a celebration. But the project has taken on new weight after the death of the band's lead singer.

The regal fritillary butterfly has largely disappeared from the East Coast, save for a surprising refuge on a military base in Pennsylvania. A few days each summer, hundreds descend for a tour.

The nation mourned the death of late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens' body lie in repose at the court Monday, where current justices and members of the public paid their respects.

The keyboardist and singer was a co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers — bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.

The lawyer for the man charged with Francesco Cali's killing says he plans to make an insanity defense, including that he became irrational after believing a pro-Trump Internet conspiracy theory.

Members of the ruling conservative party have voted for Boris Johnson to replace Theresa May, who is resigning. Johnson, a former foreign secretary and mayor of London, is a Brexit supporter.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, about the economic impacts of Brexit and how they could also impact U.S. businesses.