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The former senator, the fifth Democrat to enter the presidential race, has a colorful background as a veteran, author, reporter and defender of the Confederacy.

As Paul embarks on a presidential campaign, he doesn't fit into the mold of either party neatly. Especially on foreign policy, the Kentucky senator faces a challenge.

The Savannah Bananas, an entertaining baseball team, recently took on some retired Major League Baseball players in a game that proved just how much fun this version of baseball can be.

The rise of fees on hotel bills, bank bills, restaurant bills and everywhere else has regulators cracking down. Turns out, they are just inflation in disguise.

Donald Trump's legal woes haven't hurt his polling numbers. The ACLU files a lawsuit to block the country's first religious public charter school. Remembering Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman.

Will Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Pentagon lead to a new direction for the U.S. in Iraq? Many observers are skeptical that a new defense chief will make much headway... or that a Democratic Congress will sway President Bush's commitment to "victory in Iraq."

When Beth Donovan first made gingerbread men with her son, the cookies nearly broke her teeth. Rather than give up, she figured out a use for the rock-hard slabs of gingerbread: She built a house with them, and a family tradition was born.

With a terrific voice cast and distinctive animation, Mutant Mayhem offers a fun and kinetic reset of a long-running franchise.

Born in a moment of despair, as its creator was staring down hearing loss, Beethoven's Third Symphony is as odd as it is transcendent.

Acclaimed poet Mark Doty's memoir is not only an exaltation of America's troubadour, Walt Whitman, but also a celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry.

Biden will designate a national monument protecting Indigenous land near the Grand Canyon. NPR's Yuki Noguchi has lessons from Japan about healthy living.

A federal appeals court backs abortion pill restrictions. COVID numbers are ticking up this summer. Why The Office's Rainn Wilson wants a spiritual revolution.

Our political news roundup will include former president Donald Trump being booked at Georgia's Fulton County jail, the first Republican party presidential debate and more.

You don't have to have big bucks to join the latest trend in philanthropy. Soup groups around the country let diners pool their money to support deserving local initiatives. In Philadelphia, one dinner raised $225 for a teacher's class project.

Parents, educators and local officials had hoped to speak directly to Florida's education commissioner about the controversial new Black history standards his department is implementing. But Manny Diaz didn't attend the town hall.

Trump is indicted in Georgia for seeking to overturn the state's election results. DA Fani Willis, who is charging him, is no stranger to high-stakes cases. And, how microbes turn cabbage to kimchi.

Robert Siegel is joined by author Nicholas Carr for a look at the future of automation and automobiles. Carr's new book, The Glass Cage, warns against the rise of automation in our lives.

As he approaches his 90th birthday, the energetic, award-winning actor shares his tips on how to enjoy aging — and has a new book to prove it. It's all about attitude and staying active, he says.

With its vibrant watercolor illustrations and delicate hand-lettered recipes, artist Marcella Kriebel's cookbook is as much an art project as a manual for making tasty meals from Latin America.

Jennifer Haigh grew up in small town Pennsylvania, where jobs disappeared when coal mines closed. Her new novel explores the changes that mining — and now fracking — has brought to nearby communities.

This simple question posed by ecologist Fred Smith led to profound discoveries about delicate balance and styles of regulation in healthy ecosystems, a topic covered in a new book Alva Noë considers.

The former secretary of state describes President Trump as "the most anti-democratic leader that I have studied in American history." Albright's new book is Fascism: A Warning.

When Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man whose kidneys were failing, he'd been waiting for a transplant for years. Her book explores the ways racial inequity is embedded in the system.

Gen. David Petraeus tells members of the House that last winter's buildup of U.S. troops has met most of its military objectives. He said he envisions the withdrawal of roughly 30,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next summer, leaving 130,000 in place.

Doctors, hospitals and insurers are balking at a Covered California proposal to eject providers of care that have inordinately high costs and low quality from its networks.