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Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

NASA's Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its "hidden kitchen." On the eve of NASA's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.

In his book Under the Banner of Heaven, author Jon Krakauer examined the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of fundamentalist splinter groups, who are not Mormons and who broke off from the church after it abandoned the practice of plural marriages. The book excerpt below looks at the history of the polygamous community in Colorado City, Ariz.

Robert Kanigel's new biography recounts the life of Jacobs, a Greenwich Village public intellectual who championed street life and community. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a powerful work.

In Texas, the Prairie View City Council has voted to rename a street as "Sandra Bland Parkway." Bland was arrested by police after a traffic stop and later died in jail.

Despite other gains, New Orleans' murder rate, which hit a 40-year low last year, is on the rise again and remains nearly quadruple that of other cities its size. Residents say police need to do more.

A large crowd filled North Lee Street in Bloomington for a candlelight vigil Monday night, sharing memories and releasing balloons in front of the home where four people were found dead over the weekend.

Harvest Public Media is a collaboration of public media newsrooms in the Midwest, including associate partner stations like WGLT. It reports on food systems, agriculture and rural issues.

Nearly a half-century ago, a woman named Eva Jones made history.It was 1971, just a year after racial tensions turned violent at Bloomington High School.…

Buffalo consistently ranks as one of the most segregated cities in the nation.