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In remote Southeast Alaska, an experiment is bringing together radically diverse groups of college students to learn from the land, physical labor and each other.

NSA phone surveillance “illegal,” challenges for Loretta Lynch, and 2016 politics

A new survey shows that museum collections are deteriorating. More than 3,000 institutions participated in the study by ranking their own preservation practices, and the results were alarming.

A group seeking to ask voters in 2016 to legalize medical marijuana raised more than $770,000 in July, buoyed by contributions from its leader, Orlando...

Huey Meaux wound up in jail twice, but he sure had a knack for finding talent in unlikely places.

A report in Thursday's USA Today reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting records from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth documenting phone calls within the United States. The agency reportedly wants to create a database of calls to help track terrorist activity. Madeleine Brand speaks with USA Today reporter Leslie Cauley, who broke the story.

For more than 30 years, members of the Moosewood Collective have been promoting healthy cooking through their books and the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. The collective has just published its 11th cookbook, Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers: Fresh Ideas for the Weeknight Table.

Dr. Val Kolpakov set a Guinness World Record with more than 3,000 tubes from all over the world. He told WXIA-TV he began collecting pulled teeth, but decided that toothpaste is "much more exciting."

As part of the effort, curators at the National Museum of African American History and Culture plan to collect objects that tell the stories of black Americans during the pandemic.

Thousands of letters, writings and notes by civil rights icon Rosa Parks were opened to researchers this week at the Library of Congress.