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NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

Puerto Rico, the nation's sixth-largest school district, is in crisis. It's both uniquely vulnerable to natural disasters and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from them.

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. They died Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

Abby Grossberg says she was misled by Fox lawyers who prepared her to testify in the defamation lawsuit. Fox News says she's revealed confidential information and has sued her.

Before revealing this year's winner, judges share eight genre-defying entries as part of our Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf series.

In the messages, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity urge Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

The committee, across eight hearings, has built a case — more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases he'll run in 2024, is not fit to hold the office.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released a major report that details how stolen guns and emerging technology like "ghost guns" play a factor in gun violence in the U.S.