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President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94. We look back on his life and legacy.

The Wilco frontman talks about using music to cope, appreciating the exercise of prose writing and releasing his first original solo album.

Pfizer adds data to its request to get the OK for its COVID vaccine for young kids. Biden cautions Americans in Ukraine to leave. Truckers shut down border crossings between Canada and the U.S.

Inflation is climbing at its highest rate in 40 years. The Federal Reserve has a standard way of dealing with rising prices: raising interest rates. But it hasn't always been that way.

NPR's Ivan Amato reports on a curious phenomenon called stochastic resonance and how it might help improve the human sense of touch. When a tiny electric charge is applied to the fingertips, people are able to feel faint sensations they wouldn't otherwise be able to notice. It's a reversal of the accepted notion that electrical noise interferes with a signal. Diabetics and the elderly, who lose sensation and often fall as a result, could profit from application of this discovery.

On her new album, Asha's Awakening, the artist Raveena sends her protagonist on a thousand-year intergalactic journey of discovery, all in order to better understand her own place on Earth.

What was once a niche sector in Las Vegas has grown into a national mega-business that people can enjoy from their living rooms — and the advertising dollars have followed.

Four months after parliamentary elections Iraqi leaders are still struggling to form their leadership. Meanwhile Iraqis endure shortages and frustration.

A community rallied after a couple lost their dog in a car accident that nearly killed them all. Eventually, they all made it home.

Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 film The Battle of Algiers portrays the urban warfare between Algerians and the French troops occupying their country. The film's raw presentation of a ruthless conflict just years after it occurred left audiences enthralled. The film is now being re-released -- and to some, it conveys a new meaning in light of the U.S. involvement in Iraq. David D'Arcy reports.