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The French electro-pop artist and film composer uses a painstakingly produced stop-animation video to tell a classic fairytale from her latest album, Franky Knight.

There will be no Triple Crown winning this year. Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner "I'll Have Another" has been pulled from Saturday's Belmont Stakes. Audie Cornish talks with Mike Pesca about Friday's announcement that the horse is being retired.

Volunteers across the state will begin monitoring rivers for the invasive species, Didymo. The New Hampshire Rivers Council is launching a new program to…

A day after they were turned away by Syrian security forces, U.N. monitors reach the village where 78 people were believed slaughtered on Wednesday.

Calls for an investigation into how sensitive national security details were leaked to the media intensified this week. Some lawmakers accused the White House of leaking classified information for political gain.

The lack of interest means the vote is non-binding.

The Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist creates sound from his voice, his violin and his looping machine. His loop-heavy debut album is named after a Japanese expression meaning "one time, one place."

Niagara Falls has long been a magnet for daredevils, but strict laws have kept them away for more than a century. That changes this Friday, when circus performer Nik Wallenda will walk a two-inch-thick wire across the giant waterfall. It's an exception officials hope will rescue tourism — and the city's economy.

Neil Young talks about his newest album Americana. And Tom Philpott, who covers food and the agricultural industry for Mother Jones, joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a wide-ranging discussion about health and other issues affecting the meat industry.

Alan Furst's new thriller, Mission to Paris, follows a German-American film star to Europe on the brink of war. Fredric Stahl thinks he's going to make a movie in France, but he winds up caught between German and American forces who both hope to use his stardom for their own ends.