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Andrew Hudgins is a prominent poet, but what he'd really rather be doing is telling jokes — the more daring, the better. His new memoir, The Joker, explores the way uncomfortable and taboo jokes create learning and communication, and the important role they've played in his life.

Two more women have come forward to accuse Combs of sexual abuse, a week after the music mogul settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and physical abuse.

After Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, she became a recluse and lived with her sister, Alice, in Alabama. Reporter Marja Mills uses rich detail to provides glimpses into their twilight years.

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Researchers say the shape and style of extremist groups have shifted in the Buckeye State since the last presidential election.

The Peninsula post office is one of only a few post offices in Ohio offering a special eclipse cancellation stamp. Stamp collectors from across the country have been mailing the post office to receive one.

Some in Middletown, where Vance grew up with his grandparents, said he has never been an advocate for them. Even so, Vance’s roots could be enough for folks eager to see the “hometown kid” succeed.

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines.

Novelists Patricia Marx and Meg Wolitzer take a fresh look at romance, while Samuel Park explores how its fallout leads to an unlikely immigration trajectory for his Korean heroine. In nonfiction, James Gleick explores information theory, Antonio Damasio rethinks consciousness, and Joshua Foer investigates the nature of memory.