Listeners who are from (or have connections to) red states that flipped to blue in this year's midterms explain why they or ...

(NPR) Think of some of the most iconic scenes in classics of the horror genre: Priests gathered around a possessed child in The Exorcist. The chanting of the neighborhood coven in Rosemary's Baby. The ...

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A family of barn owls on the Upper West Side faces an uncertain future after their nesting site was disturbed by construction work.

BURWELL, Neb. — Tucked in the rolling Sandhills, the largest sand dune formation in America, sits Morgan Ranch, a 15,000-acre, family-run operation home to 1,000 cows and thousands of offspring.

D.L. Hughley is one of “The Original Kings of Comedy,” and since he has starred in the ABC sitcom "The Hughleys," written New York Times bestsellers, and hosts the national radio program The D.L.

Brian Lehrer leads special guests in a multi-round quiz of news oddities for the ultimate prize - bragging rights. Between rounds, lucky members of the audience can take on 10-question quizzes and ...

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Babacar Dem was nearing the end of another long shift last month behind the wheel of his yellow cab when he took a break to use the restroom at a chicken shop in the Central Bronx. Dem, 60, never came ...

The chair of New York City Council's public safety committee says he plans to propose legislation to improve how city officials respond to 911 outages. His call for change comes after city officials ...

Listen to music featuring bagpipes from France, the Balkans, Central Asia, and from Oman and Iran in music by Francois Robin & Mathias Delplanque, the Oman Bagpipe Singers, and from the Afro-Iranian ...