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Streetlights in Los Angeles are an icon of their own, but there hasn't been a new design for more than 50 years.The city will announce a new design for streetlights after a major design competition.

Voters in Pennsylvania, Texas and South Carolina weigh in on the end of the 2016 presidential campaign.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett on her latest novel Tom Lake, which tackles family, maternal love and the secrets a mother may choose not to share with her children.

Illinois Wesleyan is hoping an expanded menu of minors will attract more college-bound students to the private university.Starting in the fall, Wesleyan…

A top board official says the courts, not the election board, would determine if Trump’s ties to the insurrection disqualify him from being on the ballot.

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.

He used to scour beaches in the '70s, but didn't find much. In a South West England field, he unearthed a medieval diamond wedding ring in near perfect condition. It's expected to fetch some $35,000.

North Carolina's West Charlotte High School was widely seen as a national model for how schools could integrate in the 1970s, years after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.

After a conflict and reckoning stemming from its controversial past, the Sierra Club had to look inward. Can Ben Jealous bring the organization into the future?

5 months after he bought Twitter, Elon Musk has named the next CEO of the company. This sent his fans, critics, and many others, spinning.