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NPR's Scott Simon tells a tale of two piping plovers, endangered birds who've returned to Chicago to pair up and possibly raise another family of chicks.

Trump said the campaign briefly considered postponing his convention speech, but he will now continue as planned and visit Texas and Louisiana over the weekend.

Levine leads the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

A former health care facility in Normal is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Webb wrote his first song at 13. At 16, he was working at Motown, and at 18, he considered himself a professional songwriter. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Webb has written songs for artists like The Supremes. Just Across the River features him singing some of his biggest hits with guests such as Billy Joel and Glen Campbell.

Chris Spurgeon, of the Pasadena Audubon Society, drove to Orange County to see the wild snowy owl. It's a mystery how the arctic bird ended up thousands of miles away from its natural habitat.

President Bush is expected to outline a new Iraq strategy in an address to the nation Wednesday night. The plan is likely to include an increase in troops. Some Army and Marine commanders are worried that their forces may be stretched to the limit.

The fish sent a chill through summertime swimmers in Sweden and Denmark. It isn't the much-feared piranha, but a cousin, the pacu, which has a reputation for attacking men's testicles.

Computational linguist Jeff Reed figured out how to eavesdrop on wolves in the wild. But he needed help from AI to separate the signal from the noise, and start to decode what each howl means.

By by 1920, the British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass. Historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain control.