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Ahmed Burhan Mohamed became the first American to win the Dubai International Holy Quran Award. The annual contest involves reciting passages from the Quran.

The late Arizona senator will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda and will be honored in a ceremony on Saturday where former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush are expected to speak.

NPR listeners tell us what it's like when they've sent their last or only child off to college and they become empty nesters.

While conducting research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, a music theory professor discovered manuscripts of music that haven't been heard since World War II.

The U.S. Conference of Bishops this week planned to take up measures regarding clergy sexual abuse. The Vatican told them to delay any decisions until a February meeting in Rome addresses the crisis.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the first order of business will be a vote on campaign finance reform. House committees also will launch investigations of Trump administration officials.

After 100 years of unsuccessful legislative efforts Sens. Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Tim Scott hope to finally make lynching a federal crime.

At least three people in the region, including a child, were killed by trees felled as a powerful squall line moved across the region.

Soundtrack your holiday spirit with a glass of rosé and our playlist featuring Bruce Springsteen's good cheer, Bright Eyes' Christmas blues, Big Freedia's twerkin' reindeer and more.

The product promises to moisturize skin with mineral water from North Korea, but some say it trivializes tensions on the Korean Peninsula.