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Amid rising concern over domestic extremism, an NPR analysis found military veterans were overrepresented in those charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol when compared to the general population.

The $1.9 trillion federal stimulus package includes a temporary expansion of the child tax credit. Some California experts are likening it to a universal basic income and say it’s urgently needed, especially for California’s families with undocumented parents left out of previous stimulus relief.

Ian Purkayastha began selling the "king of all of mushrooms" to restaurants in his hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas, while he was still in high school.

The discussion of the plans for the places that once held Japanese-American internment camps prompts a revisit with an earlier guest. Precious Yamaguchi…

In 1954, after several draining decades as a jazz composer, performer and mentor, Mary Lou Williams quit. When she returned, she claimed her true power as one of jazz's fiercest advocates.

For more than a decade the Crissey State Line Airport was the southernmost airport in Oregon. Located just a few miles from Brookings in California, it…

Nina Turner, the national co-chair of Sen. Sanders' campaign, tells NPR's Michel Martin that his success in Nevada proves the presidential candidate has captured the support of a diverse coalition.

Indigenous people have gathered berries and medicinal plants, hunted, fished and socialized since time immemorial on Huckleberry Mountain just west of…

"What's that word?" If there were ever a person to ask that of, it's John Simpson. He spent half a lifetime as the senior editor of the final word in…

When the U.S. Mint asked Gov. Ted Kulongoski to come up with something to serve as an iconic image of the state, he took his wife’s advice.The Oregon…