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Overcoming a sour economy and accusations of fiscal mismanagement, Columbus City officials and supporters are celebrating passage of the city's first…

Officials in Guatemala are considering declaring a village buried under a mudslide a mass gravesite. As many as 1,400 people lived in the village. Rains from Hurricane Stan have increased the storm's death toll in Mexico and Central America.

NASA scrubs Wednesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery due to a faulty fuel-tank sensor. The space agency did not immediately set a new launch date. The decision came with less than 2 1/2 hours left in the countdown.

At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, President Bush joins thousands of mourners for a memorial service honoring the seven astronauts who died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry Feb. 1. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

In the third of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis to Araouane, a caravan town at least 1,000 years old.

Poetry Reading: Sherry Cook Stanforth recites Family Reunion, 1 979 from her book Drone String.

Dayton city officials have approved development plans for a $125 million racino on the former site of an automotive plant. Construction is expected to…

The U.S. Census Bureau announced it will delay all field operations until April 1 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The GDP got all sorts of attention today. The U.S. economy grew at a stellar rate of 4.1% in the second quarter. But what does that mean? And will it continue?

In this 1 year anniversary episode of Looking Up , Shankar Vedantam , NPR science correspondent and host of the podcast and weekly show Hidden Brain ,...