The late country singer's hits are making a mark on the pop charts following her death. Many are charting higher than they ever have before — and the rise of country music might play a role.

More than a week of strikes by jet-powered Russian drones has disrupted schools, work and transport … and left Ukraine, which lacks air defense supplies, feeling vulnerable.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Nancy Gertner, a former U.S. federal judge and current lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, about the legal drama inside the courtroom at the Lindsay Clancy trial.

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in August, beating expectations. The news could give the Federal Reserve more leeway to raise interest rates later this month to curb stubborn inflation.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says "excavation work" will begin in the next two weeks, without approval from a key federal body. Veterans who sued over the arch want a judge to intervene before then.

The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice.

The judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder case has declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

Leslie Forrester, executive director of the Springfield Regional Arts Council, explains the addition of Commercial Street to Springfield’s monthly First Friday Art Walk.

Eric Meyer, owner and editor of the Marion County Record, will speak at the Hatch Auditorium in Springfield about the simultaneous police raids at his home, which he shared with his 98-year-old mother, his newspaper office and a Marion City Council member. His mother died of cardiac arrest several hours after the raid.

It's part of a political showdown with Marcos. A trial could impact her plans to run for president in 2028.