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With credit card balances rising across the country, an age-old approach is gaining traction on TikTok: tackling debt by paying with cash.

A pair of fungus foragers in California's Humboldt County recently pulled in more than 200 pounds of chanterelles. Rather than cash in, they donated and got creative.

Wall, South Dakota, has 700 residents -- its drug store is visited by 2 million people a year. Wall Drug, which is a functioning pharmacy, is huge tourist attraction near Badlands National Park.

South Korea's success exporting pop culture is benefiting its museums. The National Museum has now become the world's third-most-visited museum behind the Louvre and Vatican museums.

Sen. Sam Brownback, a social conservative who played a key role in recent Supreme Court nomination battles, doesn't deny being interested in running for president. But the Kansas Republican says it's too early to talk about 2008 yet.

Maurice Jamal is the man behind the 2007 "Dirty Laundry"-- a black and gay-oriented family film that was one of the first such films released in theaters. As part of LGBT Pride Month, guest host Allison Keyes speaks with Jamal about his career and GLO TV, his Urban LGBT television network.

Maurice Sendak's previously unpublished Ten Little Rabbits was released this week. On a visit to the late writer's home, we learned he whistled while he worked. (Story aired on ATC on 2/6/24.)

Potential voters at a Colorado playground, a football game in Ohio and a Home Depot in Virginia give their impressions of the first presidential debate.

Hear a meditative trombone improvisation, inspired by dreams, and powered by spiraling loops and gentle melodies.

The Justice Department has asked a federal court to vacate its order that Apple write software to help the FBI access data in the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

The daughter of artist Walter Inglis Anderson lost her home as Katrina ravaged the family's compound. But the return of birds to the Gulf prompts this: "Emily Dickinson said hope is a thing with feathers... I think the birds are like that for me."

The self-deprecating humorist is back with a new collection of autobiographical essays. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim offers tales about his eccentric family and experiences abroad.

After the collapse of the I-35 West bridge Wednesday, authorities are now focused on accounting for missing people and recovering the bodies of victims. The destruction of this key highway left commuter traffic snarled Thursday morning in the Minneapolis area.

"I lean and loafe at my ease," poet Walt Whitman wrote, "observing a spear of summer grass." But when you get tired of watching the grass grow, you might want to pick up a good book. Susan Stamberg gets suggestions from three independent booksellers.

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will not go to jail for lying in the CIA leak investigation. President Bush has wiped away Libby's 30-month prison term, calling the sentence too harsh. Writers from newspaper editorial pages discuss the Libby commutation.

The extraordinary British diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell was buried 80 years ago today. After World War I, she was almost single-handedly responsible for the founding of modern Iraq, where her grave is still located.

Renowned writer and humorist Art Buchwald is now best known for being not quite dead. In January, he decided to refuse dialysis for kidney failure and await death in a Washington hospice. Months later, he's still around and off to Martha's Vineyard.

Frank Calabrese Jr. wrote a memoir about bringing down his father's murderous Chicago crime family. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank detailed how he helped the FBI convict his father of several murders by wearing a hidden wire and taping his father's conversations. His father died Christmas Day.

Rural counties in North Carolina became solid Republican ground over the last decade, but now Democrats are trying to get back into the picture for a legislature that's close.

Tips and advice to get the best bang for your buck during the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace, which runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15.

China on Wednesday announced a retaliatory tariff on all U.S. imports, bringing the total tariff level to 84%. The measures are a response to President Trump's latest round of tariffs, which went into effect overnight.

A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.

Leonard Michaels' Sylvia, an account of a violent and tumultuous love affair, began as an autobiographical essay and then grew into a novel. Author Sarah Manguso writes that despite all of its particularities, the story could really be about anyone. What are some novels that you can relate to?

The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.

On Sunday, this Italian city — birthplace of the Margherita pizza — will try to swipe Milan's record for the world's longest pie.