Search results for

Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney spends much time talking about international affairs on the campaign trail. Yet foreign policy, the subject of tonight's debate, can often define a presidency.

Russell Means was best known for his Hollywood roles and for leading the 1973 armed occupation of the town of Wounded Knee, S.D. One of his last acts, was the formation of a new country called the Republic of Lakotah.

Where there are political rallies, there are protesting groups. Where there are campaign speeches, there are fact checking teams. And where there are presidential candidates' debates, there are drinking games.

Responding to unfounded predictions from a local man, scientists said the risks for a big quake were slim. Unfortunately, a bug quake hit shortly thereafter. Some critics said this trial was akin to "a medieval-style attack on science."

When the presidential candidates hold their final debate Monday night, this one on foreign policy, they'll likely be asked to define their vision of America's role in the world. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, that role may shift back to economic and cultural leadership, scholars say.

Cairo is the city that never sleeps. It's routine for people of all ages to go out late at night. But the Egyptian government wants to turn off the lights earlier to conserve erratic electricity supplies. Egyptians aren't happy and say it would change Cairo's character.

Farewell, old blog. "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me" is moving over to tumblr, where we promise great videos of people falling down and animals falling down. It's basically a place to put all the things the "Wait, Wait" staff emails to each other when they should be working on the show. Here's some info on how to find us.

It's fall y'all! We put together some fun, NPR-themed stencils to inspire your autumn decor. Print out any of the three designs for pumpkin carving.

The Nazi concentration camp was "worse than Dante's hell," Antoni Dobrowolski said in an 2009 interview. He was sent there for teaching young Poles.

When Kendra Morris was a little girl growing up in St. Petersburg, Fla., she would hide in her closet and sing along with her karaoke machine. Later, when she moved to New York to chase her music dreams, it was back into the closet with an eight-track recorder she'd bought.