Jonathan Majors is pictured at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in October 2021 in Los Angeles. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
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Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez sticks out his tongue during a telethon event in 2015. Lopez, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," died at the age of 88, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote Saturday. Saul Lopez/AP hide caption
David Axelrod on President Poundstone and the political importance of turkey legs
Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's Rome correspondent, bids goodbye after a decades-long career
Nam June Paik, a Korean-born artist who blazed a trail in the fine art world by using video as a medium, is the subject of the new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. Above, the artist in 1982. Elliott Erwitt/© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos hide caption
Ibrahim Muslimani, 30, speaks to a class about a piece of music blending different eras and languages at the Nefes Foundation for Arts and Culture, which he founded in 2016, in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Nov. 22, 2022. Nicole Tung for NPR hide caption
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Fall Out Boy on returning to the basics and making the 'saddest New Year's song ever'
Black Thought (left) and Danger Mouse. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Afroman, pictured performing in 2018, made music videos featuring home video footage of a police raid of his house last year. Now some of the officers are suing him, and he plans to countersue. Johnny Louis/Getty Images hide caption