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Rioting is occurring in the Pakistani city of Karachi following the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

A southern Illinois town where striking union coal miners clashed with replacement workers in one of the nation's deadliest labor conflicts has completed…

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Springfield, Illinois, officials seeking to reinstate an ordinance that banned panhandling in the city's…

Chad Harbach [HAR-BOCK] argues that there's been a sea change in the literary world, as the center of power has moved out of New York City and into the nation's universities.

Bloomington Aldermen will meet as a committee to learn more about the hotel proposal that was rejected by city officials last month.SB Friedman, a…

A massive earthquake hit just off the Mexican coast near Guatemala overnight. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Emily Green from Mexico City.

It really doesn't get any more "Ask Me Another" than this: In this final round, every clue is an anagram of a capital city.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports that Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, is asking that a date be set for him to die. McVeigh is waiving appeals, and making the request before a judge today via video hookup.

the city of New Orleans held a memorial ceremony for the legendary cornetist Buddy Bolden, 65 years after he died. Bolden is the man who, many believe, was the first to play the music we call jazz. Dean Olsher reports.

- We hear a reading of a work by Joseph Mitchell who died yesterday at age 87. As a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, Mitchell described the vivid characters he met in the working class neighborhoods of New York City during the depression years.