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Family gatherings over the holidays promise to bring more people with differing opinions on the pressing matter of climate change around the same table.

Record snow in parts of the Northeast left thousands without power.

The opening of an art exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery showing more than 1,300 portraits of U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq brings together artists and families of the dead.

It’s time for The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

NPR's Noah Adams continues his series on low-wage workers. On a visit to Pennsylvania, he found Mexican immigrants at work harvesting mushrooms.

Digital Anchor Nicole Ellis speaks with Professor Jalil Mustaffa Bishop, assistant professor of education at Villanova University, on Wednesday, April 13 at 12 p.m. EST about his research on student loans and what borrowers can do push for debt relief and a better education funding systems for the future.

Forty years ago, Congress decided that existing anti-discrimination laws were not enough to overcome racism in the voting process. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped to tumble the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. is not for the squeamish. Founded in 1862, the museum displays everything from a large human hairball to skull fragments from Abraham Lincoln.

Chappy Hardy, a.k.a. the Man from Hunger, delivers another report from the road in his search for high-quality, low-cost Southern eats. In this installment: Mama Lou's in Robertsdale, Ala.