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Museum volunteers were perusing eBay when they happened upon a Lorenz teleprinter used by the Nazis to transmit encrypted messages. It was labeled a telegram machine and sold for just $14.

When superspy James Bond hit the silver screen in 1962, he launched one of the most successful and enduring series in film history. And, author Sinclair McKay says, James Bond gave the British the opportunity to save the world, too.

The Kentucky Historical Society is releasing a smartphone app so users can find out more about the Commonwealth's historic sites. The Explore Kentucky…

A popular podcast in the Netherlands is showing the Dutch how to face their country's colonial and slave-trading past as lawmakers push for a national apology and reparations.

In Colonial America, a witch was not a Halloween costume, but a criminal. NPR's Rachel Martin revisits this moment in history with Katherine Howe, editor of the new Penguin Book of Witches.

In a speech on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. will impose strong sanctions against Iran if a long list of demands is not met.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the mayor of Chico, Calif., Sean Morgan, about the wildfires sweeping the region.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Margaret Verble, author of When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, a story about a young Cherokee horse-diver who is finding her way in the Jim Crow South.

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

On Friday, New York's American Museum of Natural History will turn into a mass vaccination site. You could get your shot standing under the famous 94-foot-long model of a blue whale.