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A school composting program in Los Angeles helps teach students how to take climate action through its composting program.

Think the ukulele is just a cheap, plastic toy to be played under a palm tree? One listen to Jake Shimabukuro and you'll change your mind. The Hawaiian-born virtuoso visits NPR to show what the tiny instrument can do.

Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

Indie animation king Bill Plympton's latest feature, Cheatin', tells the loopy love story of Jake and Ella, and how their perfect romance fractured. Reporter Jon Kalish visited Plympton in his studio.

Studio Donegal in Ireland is the tweed manufacturing equivalent of a micro-brewery. The small mill is weaving authentic tweed garments, helping to revive an old Irish tradition.

James Franklin has been fired as the coach of Penn State's football team. He'll get a buyout of almost $50 million, reflecting a trend of coaches getting large golden parachutes.

Jury deliberations begin Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes trial. The prosecution made its closing arguments last Friday.

Augustin Hadelich dazzles in an album of odd bedfellows, which pairs Johannes Brahms' romantic war horse with György Ligeti's modernist stunner.

Jazz Hands for Autism is a Southern California-based nonprofit that provides music training, vocational development and job placement assistance for musicians with autism.

In Doyle's new novel, two old friends meet at a Dublin pub for a night of reconnecting and hard drinking. Joe has a burning secret; Davy has a concealed sorrow.