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A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.

The move to legalize recreational cannabis in Florida has generated $100 million, the most spent on ballot question in U.S. history. Sixty% of voters need to answer "yes" for the amendment to pass.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to history and trivia expert AJ Jacobs about back-to-school arcana.

Quilters have been copying patterns believed to have been used as signals for the Underground Railroad even though historians say they can't find any evidence they were used that way.

Though less effervescent than past, The White Lotus Season 3 serves up plenty of financial secrets, dark family histories and kinky hijinks as it shoves its characters out of their comfort zone.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Belinda Deneen Wallace, a professor at the University of New Mexico, about a new Pew report finding 1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. were born outside the country.

France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.

An Iraqi man walks us through his war-scarred home in Mosul — a home that used to be a synagogue when the Iraqi city had a vibrant Jewish population.

The Justice Department announced charges in what officials describe as the largest health care fraud bust in DOJ history.

Brian Clardy – a professor of history at Murray State University and one of the hosts of Cafe Jazz on WKMS – will be leading “A Love Supreme: the Artistry and Spirituality of John Coltrane,” which will examine the record’s storied musical legacy and its religious significance.