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Yale joins a growing list of American universities and colleges to cut ties with the now convicted comedian.

With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

The Urban Archaeology Corps has teens in Virginia getting their hands dirty, in an initiative by the National Park Service to help increase diversity in its staff, visitors and the stories it tells.

Visitors to the National Museum of American History can see artifacts like the bucket used to launch the ALS ice bucket challenge and how they played a role in charitable giving throughout history.

Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.

The Museum of the Bible opens to the public on Saturday in Washington, D.C. NPR's Michelle Martin talks to the museum's executive director, Paul Anthony "Tony" Zeiss.

The good guys and the bad guys in environmental issues are often determined by which side you favor. But the murkiness of good/bad and right/wrong is…

On Sunday, players from the St. Louis Rams ran onto the field with their arms raised in the "hands up, don't shoot" pose that's been used in protests of the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Irina Zhorov of WHYY's The Pulse looks at one story of what happens when natural history collections bow to other priorities.