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The tune "Misirlou" is heard in klezmer music, '50s exotica acts, surf guitar and many other forms. Guitar legend Dick Dale and NYU professor Yale Strom help trace the history of a haunting melody.

Ekaterina Dashkova so dazzled Benjamin Franklin that he nominated her as the first female member of the American Philosophical Society. Now artifacts from Dashkova's life are on display in an exhibit at the society's Philadelphia headquarters.

The stories in Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood are the opposite of tidy narratives: They're fragmentary bits that isolate and freeze moments in time. One such episode pops up in the second verse of "Hold On, Hold On," a transfixingly slithering rocker Case recorded with The Sadies.

Poet Brian Turner served as a sergeant in the US Army's Third Stryker Brigade in Iraq. Here, Bullet, collects the poems through which he reflects the experience of war.

Closing arguments are heard in PETA vs. Ringling Brothers Circus lawsuit. The animal-rights group says the owner of the circus infiltrated and spied on PETA and other animal-rights groups. Ringling Brothers officials admit they did just that, but they say PETA wasn't harmed by the spying.

At least 10 people were killed -- and 40 injured -- in the Midwest after a series of tornadoes swept across the Midwest. The bulk of the deaths occurred in Missouri. Crews assessing the damage Monday say it is remarkable more people weren't hurt.

Ping Fu has spent decades envisioning new uses for computers. Now she thinks she's really on to something: a technology that can scan 3-D objects, re-creating them virtually — and in the real world.

Renee Montagne talks with Time Magazine's Azadeh Moaveni about how the nuclear debate is playing in Iran. Moaveni says the debate sounds different when you're in Tehran. Nuclear power is an issue of national pride, and the domestic press doesn't talk about the consequences Iran faces by pursuing nukes.

Stephen Walter was sentenced on Monday. He is one of three men indicted in connection with supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that contributed to the rapper's accidental overdose in 2018.

Neil Young's spirit permeates throughout the songs of The Hiders, but there's also a musically robust style going on that recalls such genre classics as Uncle Tupelo, Sparklehorse, Emmylou Harris and The Band.