Search results for

Karen Handel, a former GOP state official in Georgia, defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker. Democrats have been unable to pick up a seat in any special election this year.

The NPR education team brings you 25 books with minority characters and authors.

President Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, spends four hours testifying in his fourth and final appearance before a grand jury investigating who exposed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

American sports fans aren't very familiar with many of the top U.S. Winter Olympians, let alone some other international athletes. But in Europe, athletes from all over the world are easily recognized.

George Mason University is the Cinderella team of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The 11th seed Patriots stunned top-ranked Connecticut on Sunday to make it to the Final Four next weekend in Indianapolis.

The former southern African breadbasket of Zimbabwe is in the midst of an economic and social meltdown. Zimbabwe's annual inflation tops 1,000 percent, the highest in the world. The country's economy has shrunk by almost a third since 2000. And there are regular shortages of everything from gasoline to basic food staples.

U.S. forces assassinated Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone attack as his convoy left Baghdad's international airport.

In this swing state, every voting bloc can make a difference. That includes Maricopa County's LDS community, where Republican women have been turning away from former President Donald Trump.

Thirty years ago, Pink Floyd's recording The Dark Side of the Moon became the number one album on Billboard magazine's pop music chart. So began the longest streak in music chart history: 741 weeks on the Top 200. No other recording comes close. The album has touched one generation after the next, which is odd because it's such a quirky album of electronic music, sound effects, saxophones, and a famous but unidentified female singer performing scat. Reporter Jad Abumrad of member station WNYC went around New York City to ask likely listeners why Dark Side has lasted.

Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From the Top, considers Elliott Smith to be one America's greatest songwriters. Smith died in 2003 before ever achieving massive fame. O'Riley's latest release, Home to Oblivion, is a classical translation of Smith's work.