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Pulitizer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff's last book was a best-seller about Cleopatra. Now, the Massachusetts native is out with a history of a subject closer to home: the 1692 Salem witch trials.

Few successful recent nominees have announced their candidacy as recently as Biden could have this week.

This week's theme is SPAs. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with S- and the second word starts with PA-.

Hurricane Patricia weakened into a tropical depression when it made landfall in Jalisco state, Mexico. Now begins the clean up from the rains and floods the storm triggered.

Host Scott Simon remembers bra expert Milton Schwartz, who made decades of women feel beautiful.

Saturday, officials in Wilmington will unveil renderings for their new skate plaza -- and host a Skate Jam for local skateboarders. "It doesn’t look like…

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Col. Alfred Richmond, one of two "Groundpounders" who are running in their 40th Marine Corps Marathon Sunday. He talks about what makes him keep coming back year after year.

Only a few yeas ago, a coughing and wheezing child with viral respiratory infection might prompt an ER doctor to call a pediatrician at Nemours/Alfred I.…

The former Rhode Island governor was considered a long shot for the Democratic nomination.

Yotam Ottolenghi and his head chef Ramael Scully discuss NOPI, their latest cookbook. It's named for the popular London restaurant that Ottolenghi owns and where Scully is head chef.