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Bill Walton has written a memoir: "Back from the Dead." NPR's Scott Simon speaks with him about his childhood, basketball career and The Grateful Dead.

NPR's Scott Simon wonders what will happen to English as a lingua franca if Britain leaves the European Union.

Barbara Gray is joined on the phone by Melissa Fay Greene, author of The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love, the account of...

A California mall straddles the border between two cities — and the minimum wage is higher on one side.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spent the past two days in the tiny mountainous nation wedged between India and Nepal.

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainability, the city of Oberlin and Oberlin College have long encouraged getting around via bicycle....

Firefighters don't go to fires as much as much as they used to. Yet the fire department is still set up the same way. What should change?

The Senate impeachment trial will begin in earnest. Virginia ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment. The Houston Astros are caught cheating.

The Australian airline logged the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney over the weekend. The flight took 19 hours and 16 minutes.

Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama still draws crowds to D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery. Now, Sherald has painted 19-year-old Najee Spencer-Young on the wall of a Philadelphia Target.