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Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled Wednesday the iPad, a much-anticipated tablet-style computer that looks like a larger version of a iPhone. The device allows users to surf the Web, watch videos and read e-books.

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.

Eighty percent of French people can't tell a real news story from a fake one. Since 2016, a teacher has been showing his students how they're duped and teaches them how to distinguish true from false.

REAL ID enforcement at airports starts on May 7. Clint Henderson, travel editor at The Points Guy, has these three tips for travelers.

The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.

A new documentary chronicles the life of a couple who left the city for a farm north of LA. They built a bio-diverse farm that survived the recent wildfires and offers lessons for sustainable living.

Loons, beloved American waterbirds, face threats from climate change and pollution. An oil spill settlement funds a new phone app helping non-scientists to aid research on these birds.

Three decades after U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam, service in that war has once again become a presidential campaign issue. Military service can lend candidates "heroic stature." Some historians cite its growing importance in elections as evidence of the "masculinization" of American politics. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with historians David Anderson and Douglas Brinkley.

Many of us take high-speed internet for granted. But if you're far from a big city, you may only get spotty — or very slow — service.

Treating American service members hurt in Iraq and Afghanistan created a new military emphasis on those with more than one serious injury.