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How long have humans lived in North America? For decades, the commonest answer has been perhaps 14,000 years — but new findings add weight to arguments for a longer human history in the Americas.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tim Naftali, a historian and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, about the historic significance of Trump's guilty verdict.

Journalist Brian Palmer toured several Confederate sites and monuments across the South and found a distorted message that celebrates the Confederacy and often omits the fact of slavery all together.

Closets, attics and basements across the region house holiday decorations and clutter. And buried in some of those boxes there is a good chance that there…

The defense attorneys insisted the three men's pursuit of the 25-year-old was prompted by "honest, though erroneous, suspicion that he committed crimes" and not because of his race.

Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black mayor of a town to singing music about change, these stories matter.

This is gold medalist Kaillie Humphries first medal for the U.S. The champion previously won gold and bronze medals for her home country of Canada.

The New York Yankees' star outfielder has broken the 61-year-old record set by fellow Yankee Roger Maris back in 1961.

A small synagogue built when throngs of immigrants moved west to Colorado in the 19th century has narrowly escaped the wrecking ball to become one of America's newest National Historic Landmarks.

The NPR Politics Podcast talks with elections law attorney Ben Ginsberg about how a contested GOP contention would play out.