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Robert Siegel reads emails from listeners about unusual Texas town names.

A "small number" of documents bearing classified markings that were "inadvertently boxed" and transported to the home of the former vice president, according to letters from Pence's representatives.

The president offered the Washington attorney the job, and he accepted. He's 55 and a partner at a firm where he handles labor and employment cases.

The Metro Nashville Police Department released new findings on Monday about Audrey Hale, the assailant who fatally shot six people at an elementary school in Nashville last week.

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

The Dominican-Italian singer got the crowd at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club moving on the second night of NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that this time, it is difficult to find a strategic reason for North Korea's missile testing.

President Bush says it is "vital" that Congress quickly confirm the changes he has made to his national security team. With new commanders and new policies in the works for Iraq, the White House seems to be clearing the decks at home as well, with a number of top-level personnel changes.

White House spokesman Tony Snow downplays news of an attack on a U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, where Vice President Dick Cheney had just spent the night. Estimates of the death toll have gone as high as 23; the Taliban calls the attack an attempted assassination.

Nearly a decade after the release of his first novel, Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier returns to the mountains of Appalachia for Thirteen Moons, a story of a man chasing love and fighting to save the Cherokee Nation.

Markets were up this week, and Obama announced his pick for FDA chief. Minnesota's still debating who should fill its senatorial seat, and Republican Party chair Michael Steele is in trouble — again.

We talk with two James Beard Award-winners about how these types of prizes affect their businesses.

Watch new live performances from the London band, filmed at World Cafe's studio in Philadelphia.

It's part of a series honoring the 40th anniversary of the Return of the Jedi featuring iconic ships of the franchise. Later coins will feature the X-Wing Starfighter, TIE Fighter and Death Star II.

The Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery will open in Winston-Salem with artifacts and historical records dating back to the 18th century.

The New Jersey school will drop the Menendez name it adopted in 2013 now that the senator was found guilty of bribery.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was associated with a man indicted in 2019 for the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

Some of the All Things Considered staff whose voices you don't always hear on air share their favorite stories that aired on the show this year.

The undisputed king of R&B is showing no signs of slowing down.