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We had a visit from Mrs. Charla Flemming, the Director and Founder of the Mt. Zion’s LAM. LAM is an acronym for Leadership, Academic and Music.

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday of complications from a fall. He was 84. Vonnegut was critical of war and skeptical of government. One of his last public acts was to criticize the war in Iraq.

The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is about $1.37 trillion, Forbes magazine reports. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, tops the list.

A new poll shows Ebola is the one of the top health concerns of Americans, below access to health care and affordable health care. Robert Siegel talks to Frank Newport, editor in chief at Gallup.

If it absolutely, positively had to get there overnight -- or as soon as possible in 1860 -- you'd have to put it on the Pony Express. Their riders could travel from Missouri to California in a recording-breaking 10 days. But a little over a year after the first rider set out, the company closed under major debt. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with the author of a new book offering a revisionist history.

Five Americans are freed from Iran to joy from their families but the U.S. agreement to release them is drawing criticism.

Peter Carey and Rachel Kushner are among those who are withdrawing in protest from the PEN American Center's annual gala. Kushner says she is uncomfortable with Charlie Hebdo's "cultural intolerance."

NPR's Melissa Block reflects on the results of an annual survey about what most scares Americans. The nation's health care system, pollution and another world war rank in the top 10.

Sam Kendricks, a two-time world champion, has tested positive for coronavirus.

At train stations from Rhode Island to Illinois to Oregon, children line up this month for one of the most important journeys of the year….on the Polar…