Macy's is promising its largest Thanksgiving Day parade yet, exactly 100 years after the tradition first started. Here's a ...

The Americans freed from China are Mark Swidan, a businessman from Texas, who was arrested in 2012 and accused of drug related offenses; Kai Li, who had been held since 2016 on espionage charges; and ...

Football isn't the only thing Americans like to watch on Thanksgiving. The National Dog Show continues its decades-long run, ...

Haynes, who died Nov. 12, was a heavy hitter, whose limber beat could lift the bandstand. His 65-year recording career was studded with more classics than we have time to even hint at.

Gershwin wrote lyrics for enduring jazz standards, including "I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceable You". We talk with Michael Owen, author of Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words, and listen to some of his hits.

Among the latest health hacks to go viral on TikTok is the idea of a short, post-dinner "fart walk" to aid digestion. Turns ...

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins was cited for careless driving and failure to wear a seat belt in September. The citations ...

This holiday shopping season is poised to break spending records. A new survey finds people plan to spend $771 on average.

Stressful conversations about politics can creep into holiday celebrations. But there are ways to stay engaged with family ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security adviser, about the U.S. role in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon after months of fighting.

It's been one year since Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners were exchanged in a brief ceasefire negotiated in the Israel-Hamas war. We look at those released and the status of negotiations.