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The writer and path-setting activist bell hooks died Wednesday at her home in Kentucky. She thought deeply about love — what it is, and why we need it.

A child who was injured in the attack on a Christmas parade in the Wisconsin city has died, prosecutors said as they filed five counts of first-degree intentional homicide against Darrell Brooks Jr.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Peter Leonard, Central Asia editor for Eurasia-net, about the dozens of people who died. It's the worst violence there since Kazakhstan gained independence three decades ago.

It's easy being green... when it's your birthday: Kermit the Frog turns 50 years old Monday. Barry Gordemer, Morning Edition senior producer and puppeteer, has this birthday tribute to the star of The Muppet Show and countless movies and videos.

The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park remained closed Saturday as firefighters battled a blaze that threatened the gathering of the iconic trees and forced campers to evacuate.

Milton Rogovin has spent more than 40 years photographing the denizens of the rough, forlorn neighborhoods that dot Buffalo's Lower West Side. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rogovin about a new retrospective of his work opening next week at the New York Historical Historical Society. See photos online.

Last month, two of Charles Darwin's notebooks that had been missing from the Cambridge University Library for 20 years were returned.

By studying huge cosmic explosions called gamma-ray bursts, an astronomer finds an important clue to one of the most profound mysteries of the universe: why is it's expansion speeding up?

Four years ago, Jackie Lantry found herself in a Chinese hotel room with a terrified young boy. Today, her adopted son Luke is a happy member of her Massachusetts family, thanks to the power of love.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Joel Anderson, executive director of the Snake River Farmers Association, about the upheaval in the world of farming.