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Venezuela is suffering one of the country's largest electricity outages in years. The nationwide blackout comes after sanctions stripped President Nicolas Maduro's embattled administration of cash.

Dozens of makeshift centers were built but stand empty. Officials want to revive a stagnating economy and attract young workers to cities by turning the structures into affordable housing.

Spotify Wrapped endures despite privacy concerns surrounding the data it collects from users. But experts say our continued excitement around the year-end aggregation is in our human nature.

The NBA Finals get underway in Arizona Tuesday night. The Milwaukee Bucks haven't made it to the championship round in 47 years. Could a win bring Milwaukee some hope?

Constituents of Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama weigh in on his efforts to block military appointments because of his position on abortion.

Inflation cooled last month, as falling gasoline prices helped to offset rising rents. News of a smaller-than-expected jump in the cost-of-living triggered a rally on Wall Street.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ben Vinson lll, the new president of Howard University, a historically Black institution, about his vision for his tenure.

Author Marc Kaufman recommends this tale of an explorer on the hunt for a rare animal — and something more. The Snow Leopard shows that while we can't always find what we're looking for, we still get what we need.

Saxophonist Gabe Baltazar is one of the last living links to an era when Asian-Americans began to make a name for themselves in jazz. Now, at the age of 83, he's sharing his story in an autobiography.

Elizabeth Strout is best known for her short story collection Olive Kitteridge, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009. Her new book is a novel, and critic Maureen Corrigan says it's a different type of winner.