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The financial support mirrors the Texas community's efforts to support the mosque: Four churches and a synagogue have offered to host Muslim services.

The frontwoman for the punk band Girl in a Coma spent years battling addiction. Now, she's gotten sober and gone solo for her new album, The Beat Is Dead.

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., was known as an international ambassador for Louisiana roots music with his genre-leaping band Buckwheat Zydeco.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has reigned for seven decades. He has been in deteriorating health for years, and a statement put out by the palace late Sunday suggests he's doing poorly.

Brittney Johnson will be the first person of color to play Glinda the Good in the Broadway hit Wicked. She began in the role as an understudy and will step into the principal role in February.

The community in Uvalde, Texas turned out in droves this weekend to voice their anger about the botched police response and investigation of the deadly elementary school shooting that happened in May.

She was country music royalty, but June Carter Cash never left her Appalachian roots far behind. In her final recording, Wildwood Flower, she reached back to those roots by including several classics written by A.P. Carter and other members of her legendary country music family. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to her son, John Carter Cash, about the album, which he helped record just before her death in May.

On this day 25 years ago, a cable channel called Music Television debuted, broadcasting "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles as its first video. The Buggles pretty much disappeared, but MTV became a behemoth. Today, the corporation owns more than 50 channels in 28 languages and 168 countries.

Bo Diddley created a trademark rhythm that has become a cornerstone of rock 'n' roll. His music has inspired the songs of top rock artists from Buddy Holly to U2, as well as numerous covers.

Kate Christensen won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel, The Great Man, a story about three charismatic older women left behind when a larger-than-life artist dies. Christensen is only the fifth woman to receive the award.