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NPR returned to Marion as people remembered Jimmie Lee Jackson and how his death was a catalyst for many other civil rights events in 1965.

Opening statements begin in Boston on Wednesday, in a capital trial that's expected to last several months. It took nearly two months to seat a jury to try the case.

The Last Song Before the War presents the glorious sounds of the 2011 Festival in the Desert, held shortly before Islamic extremists took over the region and banned music.

In Farmington, N.H., cops cruise the streets looking for good behavior. When they see it, they hand out restaurant coupons. And in Finland, fines are based on income — some can really add up.

Misao Okawa of Japan is now 117. She has reigned as the world's oldest living person since 2013, when Guinness World Records certified that she was 115.

The Microsoft co-founder says his team found the ship's wreckage in the Sibuyan Sea off the Philippines. The vessel was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is the only state to deny driver's licenses to youths who were brought into the country illegally as children, and could…

Racist emails and shocking statistics will be on display when the Justice Department (officially) releases a report about the Ferguson, Mo., police department.

Russia's president said Nemtsov's death was a shameful tragedy. Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin on Friday. His supporters blame Russian authorities.

The move is part of an effort by the British government to sell off national assets to raise $20 billion by 2020.