The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...

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A man was arrested after his vehicle ran into a crowd at an event celebrating Filipino culture, Vancouver police posted to ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer plays the puzzle with MPR listener, Dave Scheid of Rochester, Minn., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster ...

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump ...

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port in southern Iran possibly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to ...

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, a look back at the legacy of one of Communist Vietnam's best-known state radio announcers.

Frustrated with their party's response to President Trump, young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue districts ahead of next year's midterm elections.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments April 30 over a bid to open the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma.

NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the Catholic Church's upcoming conclave to select the next pope.