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This week we're looking back at the year in music with a peek at NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013. It's the annual list assembled by our in-house experts, including NPR music writer and editor Stephen Thompson. He tells Audie Cornish about his picks in the world of indie pop.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about the tensions between Russia and the U.S after a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats from their countries.

The International Crisis Group is calling on the United Nations to push the Syrian government to open pathways for humanitarian aid. Melissa Block talks to the group's Peter Harling, who regularly visits Damascus to access the situation there.

For the first time in three years, honey yields rose across the United States. It’s good news in an industry facing headwinds.

A dry winter, El Niño and the warmest winter temperatures on record are contributing to ongoing dry conditions across the Midwest.

Students everywhere failed more classes during the pandemic. Some students try to make it up in the summer. We’re going to summer school.

We're looking at behavior and discipline and a school district's quest to restore their community's trust in solving both.

Thousands of Illinois students with disabilities have to learn in a classroom without a special education teacher or with an educator who doesn’t have the right teaching license.

Just a few years ago, there were only a few collegiate esports programs in the United States. Now there are nearly 200. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on what’s fueling the growth of esports at Northern Illinois University.

Northern Illinois University was recently honored as one of the “Best of the Best'' universities in the nation for LGBTQ+ students. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin went to campus to hear what the honor means to staff and students…