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The #CancelColbert controversy overshadowed a potentially productive discussion about stereotypes in media that might have changed how such jokes are handled in the future, writes Eric Deggans.

The virus does not typically spread as far afield as it has in Guinea — and that makes it much harder to stop.

The Harlem Hellfighters broke barriers as the first African-American infantry unit to fight in World War I. Their story is retold in a new graphic novel written by Max Brooks, author of World War Z.

Charlotte’s minor league baseball team practiced in its new ballpark in uptown for the first time Tuesday.There were two distinct sounds at BB&T Ballpark…

Body art, made possible by a clever hack. It all started when a young student in France was riding his bike on the way to design school.

All the medical care in the world won't help if you don't know how to persuade the locals to take proper precautions.

The two sides will continue to work together, however, in the operation of the International Space Station.

Author Emma Donoghue's new novel, Frog Music, imagines a new solution to the 1876 murder of a San Francisco frog-catcher — and fits in a lot of raw and raunchy popular songs along the way.

Most of the guns in Mexico come from north of the border. The U.S. has taken steps aimed at slowing gun smugglers, especially since the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scandal.

There is still be a huge number of people who have been out of work for six months or more. Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution.

The three leading candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election are all urbane, Westernized men who usually wear suits. Yet their running mates range from notorious warlords to a woman.

China's new package is designed to keep the country on track to reach target growth rates of 7.5 percent for this year.

A new study shows that films featuring prominent female characters profit more than those that don't.

Also: a poem about surveillance by Robert Pinsky; a Divergent-themed summer camp; an unexpected quote from Virgil graces the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

People who are exposed to light earlier in the day are slimmer, a study finds. That doesn't mean morning sunshine helps people lose weight. But it matches other evidence on light and health.

Authorities in Washington state's Snohomish County say all of the victims recovered so far died of blunt force trauma and not from suffocation, as some family members had feared.

At WFAE's Public Conversation on "What's In Our Water," reporter Ben Bradford opened the community forum by presenting an overview of the Catawba River…

We traveled into the imaginary future to find out what it might be like to talk to the kinds of babies that some sports commentators argue don't need their fathers to have parental leave.

The report comes a day after ousted President Viktor Yanukovych denied in an interview that he ordered the killings.

British comic Steve Coogan's blowhard broadcaster character conquered movie screens at home — and now he's crossing the Atlantic. Critic Bob Mondello says he's got a good chance at breaking America.