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Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, posing during a photo session at Paris' Opera Bastille in Sept. 2022.

Gustavo Dudamel's new musical home is the New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic announced Tuesday afternoon that the charismatic 42-year-old conductor will be taking on the music director designate post at the start of the 2025-26 concert season.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., waits to deliver the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday in Little Rock, Ark.

Sanders says the choice in the U.S. is 'normal or crazy' in GOP response to Biden

Arkansas' newly elected governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, drew a sharp contrast between Republicans and Democrats, especially with respect to what she called the "left-wing culture war."

Arctic sea smoke rises from the the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger ferry passes Spring Point Ledge Light, on Saturday, off the coast of South Portland, Maine. The morning temperature was about minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

Arctic chill brings record low temperatures to the Northeast

Record temperatures and powerful winds are blasting several states with dangerous subzero wind chills. The cold snap is expected to let up in the coming days.

Bottles of Olaplex hair care products are arranged in Denver, on Dec. 8, 2022. A lawsuit claims Olaplex products contain allergens and irritants that cause hair loss and dry, brittle hair.

Nearly 30 women are suing Olaplex, alleging products caused hair loss

Women claim in a lawsuit Olaplex's range of products, numbered 0 through 9, contain allergens and irritants that caused hair loss and other problems, including contact dermatitis and brittleness.

In this file image, former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks during the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner, on June 24, 2021, in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announces run for president

In a video posted on Twitter early Tuesday morning, the former Trump administration official said, "It's time for a new generation of leadership."

With countless lights, Christmassy illuminated man-high trees and reindeer decorate the entrance of a shop

Opinion: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas in 2020

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, NPR's Scott Simon updates "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for 2020.

Singer Theophilus London attends The Shops at Target event at the IAC Building on May 1, 2012 in New York. London's family has filed a missing persons report with Los Angeles police and are asking for the public's help to find him.

Theophilus London's family files a missing persons report for the rapper

Theophilus London's family and friends believe someone last spoke to the missing musician in July in Los Angeles. Now they have filed a missing persons report for the performer.

Coinbase is a U.S.-based publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange.

Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase strikes a $100 million deal with New York regulators

A review found that the exchange's compliance program violated state laws, making it "vulnerable to serious criminal conduct." It will pay a $50 million fine and spend the rest beefing up oversight.

The coffin of boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky arrives at a cemetery on the outskirts of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Korenovsky died in the residential building that was hit in Dnipro on Saturday.

Funerals begin for dozens of people killed in an attack on a Dnipro apartment complex

Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Mykhailo Korenovsky, a beloved boxing coach and father who was killed in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Poet Charles Simic is photographed at the City University of New York, May 13, 2003.

Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Simic, former U.S. poet laureate who was born in Belgrade right before World War II. He died this week after a long career of writing and teaching.

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