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One cookie featuring a rare Pokemon sold for $15,000 online, giving new meaning to the catchphrase, "Gotta catch 'em all."

It has been 30 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded off the coast of Cape Canaveral. All seven crew members, including teacher Christa…

A wilderness experience - just you and the mountains and trees, right? Not any more. Robin Marks of member station KUOW reports that people are increasingly putting cellular phones in their backpacks. Park rangers complain that people are using the phones too much - calling for expensive and unnecessary rescues.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge describes the reasoning behind the antitrust lawsuit against Google filed by the Justice Department and 11 state attorneys general.

How to deal with burnout and ageism at work, and what to do when your boss treats you differently because of your political views.

The City of Tampa approved $1.8 million in East Tampa Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) funds for legacy owners to turn a vacant lot into affordable housing.

Royal is only the third Black dancer to be promoted to principal at the American Ballet Theatre — which is even more impressive when you know he didn't begin training in ballet until he was 14.

New York City Finance Commissioner Martha Stark believes in numbers. Whether they are lotto tickets, school grades or municipal tax revenues, she says numbers shape our lives more than we realize.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006, is known in the Catholic Church as "God's influencer" for harnessing technology to spread the word about miracles.

A computer-simulated woman named Ellie is designed to talk to people who are struggling emotionally and take their measure — 30 times per second. Researchers hope their technology, which reads a person's body language and inflections, will yield diagnostic clues for clinical therapists.

In what could be their last case of the season, the justices heard arguments about whether to apply changes in the law to those sentenced for small amounts of crack cocaine.

Florida's wild places are transforming and sometimes disappearing.

Pinellas Republican Representative Linda Chaney is crafting the draft legislation, which would trim the amount of board members from 15 to nine, and completely alter how they're appointed.

A 1970s hostage story, a generation-spanning epic of Palestinian tragedy, and a tale of 16th century conquest are all in theaters starting this week.

After years of scandal, these awards were about survival not simply ceremony. But the so-called "party of the year" was stunted by a hodgepodge of honors and a host whose caustic comedy didn't fit.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to a landmark $660 million settlement that will give more than $1 million each to hundreds of people who say they were sexually abused by clergy. It's the largest payout to date in the church's sexual abuse scandal.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease.

Fifty years ago one of the chief operators of the mass execution of Jews was tried for crimes against humanity. In her new book, The Eichmann Trial, author and historian Deborah Lipstadt explains how the trial transformed Jewish life and changed our perception of the victims of genocide.

President Obama's trip to Africa comes at a time of increasing African economic growth and declining U.S. influence on the continent. To be successful, he will need to overcome a general perception that the United States has withdrawn from Africa. At the same time, he must convince an American public and private sector that getting more invested in Africa will be good for American jobs and the economy.

Harriet Jones reports on the continuing effort to identify the dead from the massacre in Srebrenica. She visits the town of Tuzla where scientists are using the latest DNA identification techniques to attempt to give grieving families a sense of closure.

President Bush today paid his first visit to the State Department, swearing in new diplomats and saluting veteran foreign service officers. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on this week's talks between the Bush administration and a visiting trio of envoys from Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon.

One in 4 Asian Americans fear they may be attacked because of their race or ethnicity, according to a new NPR poll. Native Americans and Blacks also fear the rise in racially motivated violence.

The president's second State of the Union address touched on many of his familiar themes and agenda items but also included moments and proposals that drew positive reaction from Democrats.