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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine introduced himself to America Wednesday night as a fighter, Hillary Clinton's ally and — your dad.

The Assistant Administrator at the McLean County Health Department will take the top job on an interim basis.Cathy Coverston-Anderson has been at the…

The performance of Jesse Owens and the other Black American athletes who competed was seen as a rebuke to Hitler and Nazi Germany's notions of white superiority.

Ecuador's Emergency Operations Committee said the eruption on Isabela Island didn't represent a risk to humans or to native local species.

At an Army facility, workers are busy around the clock making armored equipment to protect U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every decade or so, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis says, he makes a political album. From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is his latest. The songs criticize hip-hop culture, a lack of strong black leadership and materialism.

For NPR's Margot Adler, it was the ride of a lifetime. After decades of looking up at the blimps that prowl the skies over New York City, Adler recently got the chance to drive one over Coney Island. View pictures from her ride.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the World Series, NPR's Bob Edwards looks back at highlights of the fall classic and talks to the author of a new book about the very first Series in 1903.

In the 1930s, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, used 850 trees to spell out the town's name on the side of a hill. Now the trees have grown too big and the hill has been scarred by development. Robert Siegel talks with Glenn Skena of Murrysville about the fading glory of the giant Murrysville tree sign.

The Skagit Valley, a lush area near the coast between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada, dominates the North American tulip industry. One family-owned company has led the way in producing a variety of bulbs -- and hundreds of acres of blooming tulips -- in the area. As half a million sightseers begin to pour into the area, NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.