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Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a four-disc box set of 73 unreleased Ella Fitzgerald live recordings, made during her 1961 engagement at Los Angeles' Crescendo Club. Music critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the compilation for Fresh Air.

Though overshadowed during his own lifetime by his employer, Duke Ellington, the composer-arranger wrote more than 1,000 pieces. Here are takes on his most famous tunes.

Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and complete a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word "squaw" from geographic names across the country.

About 27% of voters between the ages of 18-29 cast a ballot in the midterm election this year, according to an early estimate.

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.

The National Guard is conducting door-to-door wellness checks in neighborhoods that lost power as authorities search for more casualties.

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., was known as an international ambassador for Louisiana roots music with his genre-leaping band Buckwheat Zydeco.

A fifth title is at stake for the UConn Huskies. But the underdog Aztecs have proven their ability to surprise this season.

The bad economy, the wide reach of the Internet and changing racial patterns in the U.S. add to the growing number of active extremist groups in the U.S., according to a new study from the Southern Law Poverty Center.