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Despite what you may have heard, dead-tree publishing isn't dead. In fact, a host of new print magazines are bringing some wild, weird, innovative words and pictures to the alternative comics scene.

Police in the U.S. and Italy recently arrested a number of mafiosi. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks author John Dickie about a trans-Atlantic criminal connection.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Miami Herald reporter David Ovalle about a huge heist of shapewear in Florida.

Laura Dockrill's young adult novel stars a refreshingly direct, unapologetic — and occasionally crass — plus-sized girl who uses her doctor-imposed food diary to record her life and feelings.

A drowning was reported Saturday on Lake Norman. Local media outlets reported that a man jumped from a pontoon boat and did not resurface.According to…

Working mothers in Germany say they face prejudice and job discrimination in a country where many people still believe a mother's place is in the home.

Chastened since the turn of the millennium, the streaming revolution has now revivified the recording industry — at least, those at the top of it. What are the alternatives, then?

The Burke County Sheriff's office is investigating a fatal shooting early Monday in Connolly Springs, west of Hickory. A 911 caller just before 2 a.m.…

Hundreds of thousands of jobs were created for the Apollo space program. As the program ramped up, leaders in Huntsville, Ala., realized they needed to desegregate to attract talent.

"Old Town Road" spent last week neck and neck with Billie Eilish's "bad guy." Both artists helped their Hot 100 numbers with strategically deployed remixes, taking advantage of a murky chart policy.

NPR's Mary Lousie Kelly talks to Jonathan Freedland, columnist for The Guardian, about the UK's foreign policy crisis with Iran this week.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post after Iran said it arrested 17 Iranians accused of spying for the U.S. American officials expressed skepticism.

He was out. Now he's in.

NPR's Steve Inkeep talks to political anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla, who has been protesting in Puerto Rico to force the governor to resign.

Comedy shows on TV often use recorded laughter in combination with a live audience. A new study shows that hearing laughter, especially spontaneous laughter, makes a bad joke seem funnier.

A 2013 crowdfunding campaign brought the beloved detective series back from the dead for a movie. But it also boxed in the show, and the fourth season shows some of the risks of fan-driven work.

In two separate hearings on Wednesday, Democrats want Americans who haven't read Mueller's findings to see and hear them instead. Republicans want to take the former special counsel down a peg.

Charlotte City Council has approved funding for several new affordable housing projects.Council members on Monday voted unanimously in favor of the eight…

LAKE LURE -- A wanted Tiki bar cook tried to flee authorities by swimming away in a North Carolina river, but was caught by officers waiting downstream.A…

Art Neville's life connected directly to rock and roll's first notes. Travel through his funky catalog with The Meters, The Neville Brothers and his own solo songs.