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The jazz tenor saxophonist known as the Great Improviser has died.

Sonny Rollins was 95 years old.

According to a statement from his publicist, Rollins died Monday at his home in Woodstock, New York.

Rollins was a National Endowment for the Arts jazz master.

He also received a

Kennedy Center honor and was a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.

The city of Nashville is suing the supermarket chain Publix over its role in the opioid epidemic.

Cynthia Abrams from member station WPLN reports on this latest city to file suit against Publix after the company settled a bellwether case last year.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway tomorrow.

The competition is returning to the nation's capital.

It's being held at Constitution Hall near the White House after a long run at a convention center in suburban Maryland.

The champion receives more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.

Regional stock markets in Asia mixed in Tuesday trading.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei share average edging lower, retreating from the record high set Monday.

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

Comic Stephen Colbert took the stage at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater one last time last night, joking that Pope Leo XIV canceled and then introducing Paul McCartney as his final guest.

McCartney presented Colbert with a photo of the Beatles on the same stage where the band made its U.S.

television debut in 1964.