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In 1966, 2 British teenagers, in search of boyfriends, launched a message in a bottle into an estuary in North Lincolnshire, England. The bottle was found a few yards from where its journey started.

I feel the need to always include at least a few new side dishes each Thanksgiving to keep things fresh.

The state of the economy can determine presidential elections — but that doesn't mean President Biden is getting credit for positive changes.

At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.

West Virginia's legislature has approved a bill that would allow individuals to distill up to five gallons of moonshine as a way to celebrate Appalachian history and heritage.

Voters headed to the polls Tuesday in the first primaries of the midterm election season. The latest results from Texas and North Carolina.

Tiny Shanghai-based studio Pixpil beats giants like Nintendo at their own game with the new Eastward, a vintagey-looking adventure that follows an unlikely pair of friends through a crumbling world.

Tampa Bay will host Washington in the playoffs this Sunday night after beating New Orleans, 27-19, with the final play of the game going to Mike Evans to tie Jerry Rice's consecutive 1,000-yard reception record.

Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Florida, Illinois and Arizona Democratic primaries all by double digits Tuesday. And he's building a delegate lead that may very well be insurmountable.

it will test the rocket and spacecraft’s capabilities for carrying astronauts on the more-than-250,000-mile journey to the moon.

Some 200,000 tech jobs have been lost in what is seen as one of the sharpest downturns in the tech industry's history. Here is what you need to know about the mass layoffs in Silicon Valley.

Some people have been sleeping on the sidewalks of London determined to be at the front of the crowd outside Westminster Abbey to see William and Kate get married there Friday.

Climate change is making allergy season more intense and last longer. What's the best relief?

As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with increasing alarm.

Late night TV host John Oliver spoke to All Things Considered about the last few months off air, the tentative agreement for writers, and what he hopes for his writers in the future.

Nearly two years after Hurricane Maria, the government has made vast improvements and residents have worked together to clean up their communities, but Puerto Rico remains extremely vulnerable.

Tom Bullock reports on how U.S. troops in Iraq try to locate and disarm IEDs before they explode.

Comedian Tig Notaro shot to fame in 2012, talking candidly onstage about having cancer. Now she's in remission, recently married and the author of a new memoir called I'm Just A Person.

The Republican presidential candidates debate on Thursday night in Miami ahead of primary elections in five big states.

Less than six months into state attorney Aramis Ayala’s term, the Legislature voted to cut $1.3 million from her budget and she says that decision is...

On her first day as an official host of All Things Considered, Juana Summers shares some of the interests she's bringing to the position — from the issue of gun violence, to pinball.

After a year and a half of being COVID-cautious, a fully vaccinated health journalist thought he could finally travel and socialize this summer. The resulting illness didn't feel "mild" at all.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Rev. Linda Barnes Popham of Fern Creek Baptist near Louisville, Ky., about her church and four others being expelled by the Southern Baptist Convention over female pastors.

Longtime host and correspondent Linda Wertheimer is retiring — after more than half a century at NPR.

More than 50 union workers who prepare food for flights at Miami International Airport protested on Wednesday for higher wages and better working...