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Rather than identify with a country, writer Taiye Selasi chooses to identify with localities — local places and cities where her diverse range of experiences have helped shape her many identities.

Ohio man's social media post shows the DMV camera with a photo attached of ex-Cavs' star LeBron James wearing his new LA Lakers jersey — one way to make sure people don't smile for the camera.

Americans hit the polls on Tuesday to vote, Maria Valles Veeda De Bonilla went to the Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Virginia to become a U.S. citizen. She's 106 years old.

The man was having lunch with a friend in New York's Grand Central Terminal when he came across something hard in his food. The BB-sized object wasn't a tooth as he feared, it was a valuable pearl.

As part of a contest, a man ate one of the world's hottest peppers. He started dry heaving and had "thunderclap" headaches, which can signal bleeding in the brain. He's OK.

A Massachusetts man showed up to a Planet Fitness gym and then got naked. Police arrested him and charged him with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.

A roofer in Germany found a bottle with a message hidden in a roof of a cathedral by his grandfather in 1930. NPR's Scott Simon tells the story.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Tom Roberts of Narragansett, R.I.

We'd like to take a moment to bid farewell to someone who — even though you may not know it — shapes what you hear on Weekend Edition.

Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will keep its name, but change its namesake. It will no longer be named for President Andrew Jackson, but Mary Jackson, NASA's first black female engineer.