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Jim Bouton, the baseball player who spilled the dirt on the Major Leagues with his celebrated memoir, Ball Four, died this week at the age of 80.

Toby Lineaweaver of Woods Hole, Mass., talks about his "signature song," "Speak to Me/Breathe," by Pink Floyd.

Updated at 10:30 a.m. July 15Police say two people were shot and killed early Sunday at an east Charlotte apartment complex.Police on Monday identified…

Marwa Awad of the U.N. World Food Programme tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the conditions in Syria and about her tenure there.

Hamilton was 13 years old when she lost her arm to a shark while surfing in Hawaii. She went on to surf some of the biggest waves in the world. Hamilton tells her story in the documentary Unstoppable.

In the men's final at Wimbledon, Roger Federer is up against defending champion Novak Djokovic.

Parts of Manhattan were hit with a power outage Saturday night, leaving some stranded in subway tunnels and causing traffic jams.

Ephraim Bugumba was 3 years old when his family fled violence in the Republic of the Congo. His song. "Voices in My Head," was a standout entry in NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest.

North Carolina lawmakers could give the final okay to sports betting in the state as early as Monday. A bill that would allow sports books and off-track...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in December 2018.Mooresville resident Lauren Sullivan has a boat she takes out on Lake Norman from time…

Rising temperatures from global warming will more than double the number of dangerously hot days across the United States by 2050 unless the country does…

The westside residents who gathered at a Freedom Drive school Monday night had hoped to hear Superintendent Clayton Wilcox talk about hiring a new…

The Trump campaign launched its initiative to reach women in 2020 on Tuesday in the Philadelphia suburbs, an area where women were decisive in electing Democrats to Congress in 2018.

As Congress holds hearings on tech giants, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman about his efforts to convince Congress that Google is a monopoly.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, floated the possibility on Tuesday that he would mount an uphill…

Some House Democrats are concerned that the latest border crisis and feud between President Trump and four House progressives is causing immigration to overtake health care as main issue for 2020.

Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate for the 9th Congressional District special election, said Wednesday he wants to expand the number of Americans who…

There's already not enough produce for everyone in the world to get the daily recommended amount. Two new studies urge revamping the food system to feed the growing population and protect the planet.

The former head of Iowa's Department of Human Services says that, ideally, his dismissal will lead to "having open discussions about race and what we have in common, instead of what separates us."

The script for Borderlands 2 contained around 500,000 lines of dialogue. Surprised?