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NPR's Scott Horsley reports on criticism directed at Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen over the highest inflation rates in over 40 years.

Ukraine's National Opera was built to celebrate Russian opera at the height of the imperial era. Performances were suspended after the war began but have recently re-started.

The Biden administration will invoke the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels while declaring a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia.

While some cardinals have sidestepped political discussions, Cupich spoke out against gun violence on Twitter hours after the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The chief executive of Juul has quit. The e-cigarette startup is under siege as criticism over its role in youth vaping mounts. It is the target of federal investigations.

New York's attorney general has sued the wealthy Sackler family, who control OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.

After 33 years in business, the landmark New York City nightclub CBGB will close its doors for good at the end of October. This week, the seminal black punk-reggae band Bad Brains said goodbye to the club with three reunion shows.

Beck is something of a musical chameleon — he's been called a cracked folkie, a hip-hop joker, a sonic innovator, even a pop star. His latest CD finds him in all these guises, and more. Full of narcotic funk and psychedelic rock, it may well be a classic.

Hazmat Modine is a New York band fronted by two harmonica players. Their repertoire starts with blues and branches into various genres of Americana, but always with a difference: tuba bass lines, lacings of Eastern European hammer dulcimer, or Tuvan throat singing. The group's debut CD is Bahamut — reviewer Banning Eyre says its charm lies in how it lends an air of mystery and other-worldliness to familiar sounds.

Established 120 years ago, the Christian Science church is struggling for survival. Church leaders are looking for new ways to attract new believers, but some worry the church is selling out. Read a brief history of the church online, and find out more about its latest controversy.