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Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris explains the childhood incident that launched his lifelong quest for the truth. It's a lesson that has guided his career as a documentary filmmaker.

NASA assembles 12 teams of engineers to determine why a fuel sensor failed a pre-launch test on Wednesday. The sensor now seems to be working properly, making it difficult to understand what's wrong. NASA says it will launch the space shuttle no earlier than the end of next week.

Murray State University athletics director Kevin Saal is moving back to his native Kansas, where he’ll serve as athletics director for the Wichita State University Shockers. Wichita State president Rick Muma announced Saal’s hiring during a press conference Wednesday.

President Biden wanted to reset the U.S. relationship with its closest neighbors at a splashy meeting in Los Angeles. But there was one bump after another at the Summit of the Americas.

Imagine being a singer and never being sure when you open your mouth whether you will have your voice. For years, Linda Thompson's vocal disorder, hysteric dysphonia, made her stop singing completely. It took three years to complete her new CD, Versatile Heart.

The coming-of-age story isn't new, but a couple of new novels based on this theme stand out. Alan Cheuse reviews Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, by Susan Gregg Gilmore, and The Flowers, by Dagoberto Gilb.

As National Poetry Month draws to a close, we recognize five new volumes that celebrate the form, including verse probing the darkness at the edge of everyday life from U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic and hard questions posed in comic fashion from Jane Shore.

As they approach retirement age, many people have no idea how much money they will need to support themselves — and they frequently underestimate the cost of health insurance that they'll need to supplement Medicare.

Finding a book that makes you feel like a kid again is no easy feat, but author Andrew Sean Greer says he found just that in Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica.

Fraser took a step away from acting after a series of personal struggles. In his latest role, he stars as an English teacher who is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter.