Hear the top stories from 2025 - including some newsy updates.
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Music News and Stories
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The Broadway musical is a living, breathing and deeply grooving homage to a bygone era of Cuban music. -
Community and culture are two guiding forces in Ruby Ibarra's music. The Filipina American rapper — and 2025 Tiny Desk Contest winner — is joined by rock legend June Millington and an all-Filipino band. -
Kehlani’s Tiny Desk invites viewers on a ride through several of their biggest hits. -
The indie band brings its authenticity and bedroom pop style to the Tiny Desk's slightly bigger space.
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The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities. -
This follows joint drills by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers and fighters on Tuesday that prompted Japan and South Korea to scramble planes to monitor them. -
President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm equipment more expensive, and the President's trade war with China which closed a huge market for American soybean exports. -
Legendary NBA head coach Phil Jackson and sports writer Sam Smith talk about the stars who helped define the sport, including Jordan, Kobe, Shaq and "bad boy" Dennis Rodman. -
Fresh Air film critic Justin Chang says most of his favorite films this year were made overseas, including his No. 1 pick, Sirāt. -
The song, which came out in 1994 and first hit the top 10 in 2017, has now led the chart for the last seven holiday seasons.
