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

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

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.

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

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

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

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

The time change can be hard on our health. There are more car accidents, strokes and heart attacks this week. People eat more ...

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, ...

The 88-year-old pontiff is responding well to the treatment for double pneumonia and has shown a "gradual, slight improvement ...

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