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American slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.

Lance Armstrong has resigned from his charity and lost millions of dollars in endorsements, days after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released its report alleging a widespread doping conspiracy inside his cycling team. In the court of public opinion, at least, the verdict seems to be in on Armstrong.

Jonah Lehrer lost his job at the respected New Yorker magazine after admitting that he fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan in his book. He joins a long list of writers, journalists, bloggers and scientists who've crossed the line from fact into fiction.

Another unpleasant task awaiting people returning to their homes in New Orleans is cleaning out refrigerators full of rotten food. We visit residents of one neighborhood as they hold their noses and open their refrigerator doors.

Twenty-five years ago, Houston doctor Wayne Shandera co-authored the first official medical report by the Centers for Disease Control of a mysterious sickness afflicting gay men. He's still working with people who have HIV and AIDS.

Officials say "signs of life" are detected at a village buried by a landslide in the Philippines as rescue workers use high-tech search equipment. Officials fear as many as 1,300 people are buried under the mud in the village of Guinsaugon.

The President of the American Civil Liberties Union speaks in Naples this week, kicking off the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Naples and…

Classmates, clergy and community leaders are taking a new look at life in Red Lake in the aftermath of Monday's school shootings. The isolated Red Lake reservation is home to some 5,000 Chippewa, or Ojibwe, people.

U.S. jets pound suspected Shiite militia positions in Sadr City, Iraq, killing at least five people. Elsewhere, insurgents detonated two car bombs, killing seven Iraqi guardsmen. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Tornadoes touched down in several states this week, killing at least 27 people. The majority of those killed lived in a handful of rural counties in northwest Tennessee.