NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.

First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but ...

The Ukrainian military says that today it attacked airfields in Russia, where fighter jets used to bomb Ukrainian cities are stored. They say it's an attempt to weaken the Kremlin's war machine.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

Ukraine said it struck a Russian airbase on Saturday, while Russia continued to pound Ukraine with hundreds of drones ...

Services that split up payments into installments are increasingly popular, especially among young and low-to-middle income ...

Governor Greg Abbott says the state will work day and night to find people who may be stranded and unable to call for help.

It's natural to feel some skepticism when a celebrity makes a documentary about their own family. But Law & Order star ...

At least 24 people are dead following extreme flooding that slammed Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday, according to ...