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This week's essential playlist includes Chastity Belt singer Julia Shapiro on her first solo album, Portishead's Beth Gibbons singing with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and more.

He had earlier promised to leave before April 28, but pressure from the military and continued demonstrations accelerated his departure.

The first-ever NPR Student Podcast challenge has closed, with nearly 6,000 entries from all 50 states. As you might expect, students these days have a lot to say.

More than 50 animals were found in the tomb, along with mummies of a woman and a young boy. It's "one of the most exciting discoveries ever," Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has completed his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It is unclear how much of the report will become public.

The singer from Puerto Rico is part of a movement on the island that emphasizes largely acoustic instruments and a folk-based approach to interpreting life before and after the hurricane of 2017.

Wells Fargo announced Thursday that CEO and President Tim Sloan will step down immediately. The company's general counsel Allen Parker was elected to run the company until a new CEO is selected.

A federal judge already has ruled that mental health care for inmates in Alabama's prisons is "horrendously inadequate." Now he's looking at the system's response to 15 suicides in the past 15 months.

The "fornication law" had designated sex between unmarried people a class B misdemeanor, carrying a penalty of up to six months in jail or a maximum fine of $1,000.

Police say they have arrested a 17-year-old male for allegedly making threats targeting specific ethnic groups at Virginia's Charlottesville High School.