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Cadres of volunteers, mostly medical professionals, are part of a little-known federal emergency program launched in the aftermath of 9/11. Increasingly, states are deploying them against COVID-19.

Former WOXY-FM DJ Barb Abney returns to the airwaves here through next week to help her friends at WNKU-FM. Abney, a 10-year veteran of Minnesota's...

Cincinnati Public Schools is asking for community input as it searches for its next leader. Superintendent Mary Ronan is retiring in August.

Listeners have sent in more poems as part of our month-long poetry series, #NPRpoetry. Today's poems reflect on nature and springtime, from sandhill cranes in Michigan to rainstorms in Hawaii.

The African-American plaintiffs say they were threatened with violence and harassed by white co-workers at a Daimler Trucks plant in Portland.

Itzhak Perlman celebrates his 71st birthday this week.Since appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958 when he was 13, Perlman has become the world's…

The Margaret Olwill was on its way to Cleveland from Kelley’s Island at the end of June 1899, carrying 900 tons of limestone and 12 passengers. Caught in…

The Margaret Olwill was on its way to Cleveland at the end of June 1899, carrying 900 tons of limestone and 12 passengers.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle with Beth Adams from Monticello, Fla.

After Richard Nixon's famous trip to China in 1972, there was a thawing in the icy relations between that country and the United States. Who knew that…