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Next week is Veterans Day, and there are a number of commemorations scheduled, from the annual Veterans Day parade to memorials and observances. The…

Plenty of TV shows and movies over the years have been the subject of fan fiction. Many of those adaptations take the characters as they are and place…

With days likely left in the sled dog race, one of the frontrunners has been given a 2-hour time penalty after officials deemed he didn't sufficiently gut a moose that got tangled with his dog team.

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 paved the way for the creation of National Public Radio, which formally began on February 26, 1970.NPR has come a long…

The news this Spring that Michael Lovell would leave his role as Chancellor at UW-Milwaukee to become the next President of Marquette University stunned…

It’s been dubbed the "Witch’s House.” Urban legends portray the former owner and creator as a loner, shut in her home, creating the concrete statues that…

The British newspaper The Times once described Meg Rosoff's literary output thusly: "Searingly well written, her books read like Samuel Beckett on…

Juan Felipe Herrera is the child of Mexican migrant farmworkers. He says, "I had a mother [who] sang and told stories and loved poetry, even though she only went to third grade."

As dignitaries gather for Queen Elizabeth's funeral, people have been lining the streets to catch a glimpse of the events. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Frank Langfitt and author Claudia Joseph.

Fidel Castro's ashes have begun their journey east, retracing the route he and his rebels took in 1959 to seize control of Cuba. They will be interred Sunday in Santiago de Cuba.