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Maurice Sendak, the well-known children's book author and illustrator, has died. He was 83. Sendak is widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are. Steve Inskeep has this remembrance.

As an early version of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain, we look at the pros and cons of expiring copyrights.

A Nevada commissioner ruled against Murdoch's attempt to change a family trust in a way that would have allowed his son, Lachlan, to cement control of his media empire.

The Palisades and Eaton fires are among the most destructive in California history. At least 24 people have been killed and thousands displaced in the wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area.

Antoinette Lee “Toni” Gruenwald, 60, of Bloomington, passed away Friday, April 11, 2025, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Carol J. Jewett, 85, of Bloomington, IL, passed away on May 17, 2025, at 11:25 am at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center.  She was born on December 11, 1939, in Bloomington to Albert and Edith (Higgs) Niepagen.

Sharing the duties of caring for the family's 87-year-old matriarch has brought the Martin family closer together. Everyone in the multigenerational household, including the teenage kids, lends a hand. But the situation is also forcing the Harrisburg, Pa., family to think about the future in new ways.

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with humor writer Joe Queenan about "Closing Time," Queenan's memoir of growing up in a Philadelphia housing project with an abusive father and indifferent mother.

Wiesel, who died July 2, was one of the first survivors to devote his life to bearing witness to the Holocaust. He was the author of many books, including Night. Originally broadcast in 1988.