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The Bialetti Moka Express revolutionized home coffee preparation worldwide. After the death of the company's executive, Renato Bialetti, last week, here's a history of the iconic appliance.

A scholar of medieval history believes he may have found the earliest recorded evidence of the "F-word." NPR's Scott Simon muses on what makes a word vulgar, or an obscenity.

BMX rider Dave Mirra, one of the most decorated athletes in X Games history, has died at the age of 41.

Bowers, 46, is a resident of Pittsburgh with a history of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media. Authorities believe he acted alone.

The windows, which honor Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, will remain during a period of "public dialogue" on race and slavery. But the battle flags will be replaced with plain glass.

If Russian athletes are allowed to compete in Rio without proper vetting of doping allegations, it'll be history repeating itself when Soviet athletes were suspected of doping in the 1970s and '80s.

Police were accused of beating false confessions out of accused black men, starting in the 1970s. Activists say reparations aren't the end in the city's dark history around racial police brutality.

The attack at a Florida nightclub played out for more than three dramatic hours. Survivors, doctors and law enforcement officials recap the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

For the indigenous people of Northern Africa, Jan. 14 is a day to celebrate their culture and religion. It reminds Berbers living in the U.S. of the struggle to preserve their identity far from home.

Poet Tess Taylor reviews Jynne Dilling Martin's poetry collection, We Mammals in Hospitable Times, that drew much of its inspiration from her time in Antarctica.