1+ week, 3+ day ago   (358+ words) NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sam Holleran, one of the authors behind the new book Scattered Steel: the afterlife of the World Trade Center. For years, the artist Sam Holleran has been fascinated by the 9/11 memorials across the country built…...

4+ day, 26+ min ago   (241+ words) Despite record viewership and attendance, and amazing talent across the league, the WNBA has been caught up in the national conversation about the culture wars. Sportswriter Sabreena Merchant says, “everything in the WNBA seems to take on a political lens…...

4+ day, 17+ min ago   (874+ words) This fossilized feather dates back 66 million years to the late Cretaceous. "It is, without a doubt, the best feather we've ever found from the age of dinosaurs," says Jingmai O'Connor, an associate curator at the Field Museum of Natural History....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (420+ words) The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is having a landmark year. Viewership and attendance are up, team valuations are soaring and the league just signed a massive $3.1 billion media rights deal. Journalist Sabreena Merchant, who covers the WNBA for The…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (707+ words) A screenwriter is suing a major Hollywood television producer, alleging that her screenplay and ideas were stolen and used in the hit TV series Yellowstone. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: "Yellowstone" is a modern-day Western drama set in Montana. It stars…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (62+ words) In the Portland, Oregon, area, a nonprofit harvests edible fruit from thousands of metro trees, shrubs and bushes, and distributes it to people in need. Oregon nonprofit harvests fruit from backyards and parks for people in need In the Portland,…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (928+ words) President Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Venezuela with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (center) at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3. U.S. forces captured Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro and brought him to New York where…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (374+ words) A new study shows that the widespread fear and isolation caused by the immigration crackdowns that began in early 2025 had a significant economic toll on Chicago commerce, draining over $1.26 billion from local businesses. Professor Matt Wilson, a co-author of the…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (244+ words) Calling someone a "Luddite" is usually an insult – shorthand for someone who is behind the times. But the real Luddites weren't just afraid of change; they were a labor movement fighting to save their jobs from being replaced by machines....

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (112+ words) The brown anole, Anolis sagrei, which scientists used in laboratory experiments to determine whether the silver key anoles on Turks and Caicos had adapted differently. Day's Edge Productions hide caption This study is out now in the journal Current Biology....