A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday ...

A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday ...

Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of proclamations celebrating Women's History in March. NPR readers share stories ...

For Rosen and his congregation, being anti-Zionist means practicing a Judaism that is committed to a universalist vision of ...

The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Ellen Triebwasser of Red Hook, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

New Justice Department leaders say past enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is "the prototypical ...

The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A ...

Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday, ...

Some researchers say these recent attacks are examples of "nonideological" terrorism — the result of several antisocial, ...

Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering ...