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The host of All Songs Considered shares the 10 albums and 30 songs he most loved this year.

This may have been a year when Latin music exploded globally, but the Alt.Latino and El Tiny host also sensed a desire among musicians for softness and stillness.

There's an old saying: "It takes a village to raise a child." Through Ypsilanti Community Schools, an after-school program called "Ypsilanti Community — The Village" builds up the well-being of kids with athletics. Lee Van Roth discussed the program with its director, YCS football coach Mitch Long.

Japan can call itself the world champion of baseball. The Japanese team captured the inaugural World Baseball Classic by beating Cuba 10-6 in the championship game San Diego.

The Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby, has been appointed as the next archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England. The former oil executive has only a year's experience as a bishop. Philip Reeves has the story.

This week, the rapper Future hit #1 on Billboard's albums chart for a third time in the last six months. Meanwhile, on the songs, chart, stasis is becoming the coin of the realm.

Toni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.

Michigan’s re-drawn 6th Congressional district has a popular, incumbent Democrat seeking re-election and a Republican challenger that is, for lack of a better term, an elusive candidate. As Cathy Shafran reports, Debbie Dingell is ever-present on the campaign trail, while GOP primary winner, Whittney Williams, is nowhere to be found.

This week on the charts, only one new album debuts in the top 50: Alter Ego by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK and the latest season of White Lotus.

The first few weeks of a new year are rough on hosts of free-form music programs. The big year-end push is over, the holiday recordings are retired and…