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Sometimes a cover song is so good, so singular that it completely eclipses the original version. Think Sinéad O'Connor doing Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” On this week’s All Songs Considered, NPR Music shares some of its picks for cover songs that are better than the originals and explores what, exactly, a cover song needs to become a classic.

Oregon attorneys argue that an order that could result in more transgender women being housed in the state’s only women’s prison is “vague and overbroad”

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

Humboldt County planners are writing rules for a proposed offshore wind terminal that could allow the site to serve other industries.

From Nobel Prize-winning research to the Laffer Curve, Scabby the Rat, Veblen's peacock, and more — the economic ideas and inside jokes hiding throughout Planet Money's new board game.

A Syrian court sentenced Assad along with his brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.

New research from the March of Dimes says more than half of U.S. counties have no labor and delivery hospitals. One Black midwife tries to make a difference for moms in Alabama.

We asked people to share the story of how they became a Deadhead and received hundreds of responses. Their stories are tender, comical and sometimes spiritual.

After Alabama redrew its congressional maps in May, voters in several districts saw their primaries pushed to August. Now, it's time to vote and there are concerns confusion will dampen voter turnout.

As educators in the nation's second-largest district prepare for the new limits on classroom screen time, some teachers say it will be a difficult adjustment.