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Harvard University's Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women in the labor market. She studies the causes of the persistent pay gap between men and women.

NPR's Stefan Shepherd reviews the children's album Trees by Billy Kelly and Molly Ledford.

Democrats are abandoning New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez in the wake of his federal indictment in a corruption scheme involving his wife and local businessmen.

Some of science's great ideas were created in homespun ways. To test his ideas on evolution, Charles Darwin and his butler dropped asparagus into a tub. Darwin's oldest son studied dead pigeons by letting them float upside down in a bowl.

Sherrilyn Ifill said the amendment transformed not just the 19th century, but the 20th century, helping spur immigration from Europe.

The recall includes the Honda Civic, Accord, CR-V, Fit, HR-V, Insight, Odyssey, Pilot, Passport, Ridgeline, as well as Acura MDX, RDX and TLX, from model years between 2020 and 2022.

Why do we like an original painting more than a forgery? Paul Bloom argues that humans are essentialists – that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not just as an illusion, but a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.

New Englanders are expecting treacherous roads and power outages. Southern New England and the coastline will get mostly rain, and maybe a few inches of snow, with most snow further north.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge approved the conservatorship Thursday, noting that Brian Wilson suffers from "a major cognitive disorder." Wilson has agreed to the conservatorship.

The federal government says it will restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region in Washington state, where they have not been seen since 1996.