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Though he remains a solo artist, LaMontagne branches out on his new album, Gossip in the Grain, taking some touring bandmates into the studio with him. In a session from WXPN, he reveals why he wrote a song about White Stripes drummer Meg White.

After winning the Juno Award in 2003, Sam Roberts' trajectory has gone nowhere but up. The Canadian rocker started as a humble self-recorded singer-songwriter and quickly found himself one of the country's biggest exports. He performs songs off his new riff-filled CD in a session from WXPN.

Snoop Dogg had previously been paying the blunt man $40,000 to $50,000 a year, but he tweeted last week that he's upped the salary to an undisclosed amount.

Novac Djokovic said this week in a BBC interview that he will not get the COVID-19 vaccine, even if it means missing Grand Slam tournaments like Wimbledon and the French Open.

The UK Parliament voted in favor a report that concluded former Prime Minister Boris Johnson purposefully misled his fellow lawmakers over parties that took place at his residence during the pandemic.

Whether you ventured out to a theater or stayed at home to watch via streaming, there were a bunch of good movies that came out this year.

In New York City, there were more than 10,000 positive cases Friday, up 100% from two days earlier.

President Bush's public approval rating lags those of other recent second-term presidents, a new pre-inaugural poll shows. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Taipei 101, the world's tallest building, will be officially inaugurated in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 31. Designing the 1,666-foot skyscraper in the earthquake- and typhoon-prone region presented engineers with quite a challenge. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and structural engineering consultant Dennis Poon.

President Bush says Social Security is in "crisis," but polls show a majority of seniors think the system needs only minor fixes. Retirees in Arizona and Pennsylvania weigh in on the issue.