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NPR's Skunk Bear blog received 300 nominations for our Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance. We have a winner: Elizabeth Tibbetts found her luck, and scientific insight, in tiny insect faces.

The victim, who is recovering from his wounds, says a masked man accosted and shot him in his driveway Friday. The attack is the second in two weeks that has drawn a response from an Indian minister.

The stock market continued to lose ground Monday after Friday's steep drop, with the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 1,200 points — its worst single-day drop.

This year's winner is a songwriter from Boston, Mass., whose winning song is an ode to feeling like she doesn't fit neatly into any one box.

Yesterday was a bad day for Grubhub. The food delivery service launched a free lunch promotion for people in New York City. And spoiler alert: it backfired.

In Paducah, Ky., AQS QuiltWeek is back after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Tens of thousands of people are flocking there and couldn't be happier to celebrate this often overlooked artform.

A long time ago — back in 1999, to be precise — a posse of die-hard Star Wars fans road-trip across the country to steal an advance print of The Phantom Menace.

A data scientist pitted rappers against Shakespeare to see who had the more extensive vocabulary. But he says he isn't trying to make some sweeping statement about the lyrical prowess of hip-hop.

These days, a New Year's Eve celebration doesn't feel complete without one thing: a countdown. But that ritual to ring in the new year isn't as old as you might think.

Cassidy Hutchinson testified she asked those involved if the story was true and they did not dispute the account of Trump growing "irate" when told that he had to return to the White House.