Earlier this year, 19-year-old Alex Yurkiv was killed in a motorcycle accident in Australia. His name isn't well-known, but ...

Actor Jim O'Heir shares stories from seven years on NBC's Parks & Recreation with NPR's Juana Summers. This news story is ...

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President Biden is expected to issue an executive order Tuesday that would greatly reduce the number of asylum-seekers ...

To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a ...

A Mr. Bean-style comic, a pygmy hippo and a Filipino teen who's been doing dance videos since she was 9 years old: we look at ...

The sanctuary in Washington state said it was working with officials to determine the cause of the outbreak, which has killed ...

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In the 1970s, a landmark federal law gave children with disabilities a right to a free, public education, and offered federal ...

Krakow, Poland, has one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe. NPR correspondent Brian Mann spent a day exploring -- and ...

Sports fans who tuned into Netflix's landmark streaming Wednesday of two NFL games may have felt a bit of troubling déjà vu – ...