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Misty Copeland says she played with Barbie dolls until she was 13 — the same year she started ballet.

Can you name the original 13 British colonies that then became the United States? Okay, can you name what was once considered to be a potential 14th...

Also: President Obama welcomes five Nordic leaders to the White House; the first woman is poised to lead a U.S. combatant command, including NORAD; and it's time for Eurovision 2016!

An airline passenger in Bellingham, Wash., had a marijuana grinder in his bag. If you're going to pack your pot grinder in a carry-on, it might be better if the grinder was not shaped like a grenade.

Credit cards with chips in them have been around for four decades. So why is America only getting them now? And now that they are here, why are so few places using them?

Scoring a fix is cheap and today's heroin is strong. But that's just part of the reason why America got hooked. Today on the show, we trace the roots of America's heroin epidemic.

Police in Columbus responding to a report of an armed robbery shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who they say pulled a gun from his waistband that was...

Sixty years after the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling, many schools are still racially divided. According to 2012-13 state data, in...

Turkey's capital was struck by a large explosion on Sunday, hitting a transportation hub that was packed with travelers returning from weekend trips.

Becky Mayo plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.