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The web audio platform, known as a hub for independent musicians, has struggled to get funding over the last year.

on Speaker Newt Gingrich's bid for a second term. His re-election has been clouded by his admission that the ethics sub-committee received misleading documents about funding of a college course he taught.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the four directors who have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation since J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI's most recent director, Louis Freeh, leaves a bureau clouded by scandal and accusations, but his predecessors didn't have an easy job, either.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says that a geomagnetic storm that originated on the sun may explain why a major communications satellite stopped functioning two weeks ago. NASA captured the most comprehensive images ever of the storm, including a sequence showing a cloud of solar particles lifting off the sun and heading toward Earth. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Commentator John Rosenthal describes a photograph he once took. The image he captured in the picture is deceiving, and people make incorrect assumptions when they look at it. Photographs beg the viewer to look for what is behind the picture. Because things aren't always as they seem -- like the atomic mushroom cloud, which is beautiful until you understand what it means.

Part of Nick Underwood's job is flying through hurricanes to collect data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He's been doing that for six years and says Ian was especially rough.

Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud is sometimes called the "Aristotle of comics" for his analysis of the medium. The Sculptor, a meditation on love, art and death, is his first graphic novel.

The head of the U.S. Border Patrol said her agents are spending more and more of their time dealing with families with children who need food and medical care.

The latest film in the space odyssey juggernaut brought in $450 million globally in its debut weekend, and that's not counting China.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Ben LaBolt, White House communications director, about Tuesday afternoon's debt limit talks at the White House between President Biden and congressional leaders.