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One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more rural time in American history. In 1919, there were 190,000; now there are fewer than 400 left.

The boy band announced their break during a dinner filmed for social media. The group officially debuted in 2013.

Fifty of the filmmaker's photographs are on display in Los Angeles, paired with the music that inspired them: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul.

Zia Cooke has been chosen for a new campaign to support women college athletes through name, image and likeness sponsorship deals.

Behind fences, under armed guard, the United States stores hundreds of tons of nuclear material. It's enough to make tens of thousands of bombs that could kill hundreds of thousands of people. The government says the sites are well protected. But critics say that's a lie. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports from Los Alamos, one of the nation's highest security sites.

After a record-setting Christmas, Hollywood wraps up the year with more than $9 billion in the till -- the second biggest box office total in its history. Film critic NPR's Bob Mondello says a large part of that money was well-earned: some of 2003's most popular movies were also among the year's best. He offers a list of his top movie picks for the year.

Sarah Polley's debut film is a generous, deceptively simple portrait, simply brought to life: Gordon Pinsent's Grant is gruff and bearish, Julie Christie's Fiona gorgeous and exquisitely blank.

Political conventions aren't what they used to be. Floor fights over platforms and nominees have given way to "unified, happy affairs." NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts reviews the history of some of the most contentious conventions.

The price of gold hit a 28-year high, topping $800 an ounce, after the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by a quarter point. It was the second cut by the Fed this year. The move to spark the economy comes as the price of a barrel of oil broaches $100.

The problems in the housing and credit markets are leading to more layoffs on Wall Street. Investment bank Bear Stearns says it will trim 310 jobs from its mortgage group. Merrill Lynch fired two senior executives.