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Twenty-eight women at an Indiana jail have filed federal lawsuits alleging they were assaulted, and at least two of them raped, in 2021 when incarcerated men paid an officer for access to their cells.

The powerful head of Mexico's teacher's union is in jail charged with embezzling about $160 million in union funds. Prosecutors claim some of the money went to plastic surgery, real estate in the U.S. and other luxury expenses.

Conductor Marin Alsop investigates the alluring power behind the grand opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

New York City is announcing new gun-free zones that will include Times Square and the subway system. The new rules follow the Supreme Court decision overturning New York's handgun licensing law.

She's already one of the most imaginative saxophone players in jazz today. But Roberts' new album challenges even that reputation: It's a musical patchwork spanning decades of history and memory in the lives of 18th-century Louisiana "free people of color."

Three law enforcement officers in Arkansas have been suspended over what appeared to be the beating of a suspect that was caught on video.

West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, both chastises and praises the hip-hop singer for being an arrogant perfectionist. Rock critic Ken Tucker says it may be an example of "egregious self-aggrandizement," but it's also "superb music-making."

High inflation means some taxpayers will pay less to the IRS next year, and some will be dropped into a lower tax bracket. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jacob Bogage of The Washington Post.

It's been 40 days since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran after being detained for not wearing her hijab appropriately, according to the police.

Jeff German, an investigative reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was stabbed to death in September. He had started investigating a Ponzi scheme. A Washington Post reporter finished the story.