The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is nestled between sand dunes on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It shut down ...

On Dec. 9, 1965, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered on television. In 1995, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz spoke with ...

The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone ...

As María Corina Machado is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the Venezuelan opposition leader is betting everything on ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

There's been a steep increase in how much Americans pay for health care, despite seeing worse health outcomes than most other developed nations.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life ...

Demand for professional Santas and other seasonal workers seems to have cooled. Could that be a sign we're in a recession?

This year’s National Christmas Tree is a red spruce from Highland County Virginia. Spruce are a rare species of trees in ...

You don’t stop dancing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop dancing. A dance instructor in Roanoke is the very ...

If Santa Claus is the good cop of Christmas, then Krampus is the bad one: a creature from European folklore who scares ...

Historically, Black bears were the biggest predator to travel the Big Bend area of Texas. But overhunting and habitat loss ...