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Five years after his death, a new book about the King of Pop written by two of his former security guards provides a closer look at the famous — and sometimes infamous — musician's life.

Linguist Dan Jurafsky uncovers the fishy origins of ketchup and how it forces us to rethink global history. He also teaches us how to read a menu to figure out how much a restaurant may charge.

The remains of one of the 43 missing Mexican students have been identified, but parents of the others still don't believe the official version of what happened to them and vow to fight to find their loved ones — alive, they hope.

NASA successfully launched and landed a test version of its next-generation Orion spacecraft on Friday morning. The unmanned test is the first for the follow-on to the shuttle.

In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham accuses a man she identifies as Barry of sexual assault. Yet "Barry" is a pseudonym — and the ensuing confusion has prompted her publisher to clarify matters.

If you've never seen hundreds of thousands of lights used to do things like animate wire-frame animals, you're going to love this bonkers piece of television.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would make a change in the Affordable Care Act. It would raise the law's definition of full-time work from 30 hours to 40 hours a week.

State legislators have descended on Raleigh for the start of the 2015 legislative session. Today’s session is largely ceremonial. The only votes scheduled…

Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the French capital and other cities Sunday in a demonstration of unity and defiance following the Paris terror attacks.

J.C. Chandor makes provocative use of the imagery of violence to explore the life of a bad man who wants to seem good.

The FBI released a statement on Friday saying that the North Korean government is responsible for the massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.

One family is at the center of Colombia's first legal abortion clinic. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Joshua Lang about his feature story on the family in California Sunday magazine.

On Thursday, an epic high school basketball game — featuring three buzzer-beating buckets — ended with a last-second shot in quadruple overtime, sending one team to the Minnesota state tournament.

In Louisville, Ky., a fight is brewing between Google and AT&T. Google wants to bring its ultra-fast fiber Internet service to the city, but it wants to use other utilities poles. The city allowed that to happen. AT&T says not so fast.

President Obama is said to be interviewing candidates to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Lee Sedol has lost three games in a row to Google's AlphaGo program, which means the program has officially defeated the human. Lee said the pressure was intense, and he felt "powerless."

What the Michigan and Mississippi exit polls tell us about Donald Trump's big wins and Bernie Sanders' upset.

Experts say interim CEOs are in greater demand these days. Some say the role is changing, and companies are increasingly turning to temporary leaders to overhaul their businesses.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she would be "above the president" if her party wins the elections on Sunday.

Do you really need to know what happened to Peter Pan before his life became magical? Pansuggests the answer is, "Not really."