In 2008, the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, faced a courtroom in the Hague accused of war crimes. His trial would last more than three years at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra ...

Kate Adie introduces stories from Ukraine, Iran, the United States and India.

After the Civil War, freed slaves were able to get jobs as cowboys in the Wild West. Valley 101 shares the story of Black ...

Dozie Anyaegbunam's family is from Nigeria. The Underground Railroad didn't carry his ancestors to Canada. But now living in ...

Deep in Poland’s Owl Mountains, Książ Castle pulls in visitors with its fairytale architecture but hides a network of Nazi tunnels, a history of forced-labor and the enduring legend of a lost train ...

The Ukrainian skeleton athlete, a medal contender at the Milano-Cortina Games, was not allowed to compete after refusing a ...

Student surpasses $100,000 goal to create educational tool for peers This launch showed what happens when a young ...

As the Colorado River shrinks, it’s revealing an iconic canyon that’s been underwater for decades since it was dammed up in ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Constanze Stelzenmüller of Brookings Institution, about the outcome of the Munich Security Conference and the state of U.S.-European relations.

The Hawkeye Marching Band once shared its halftime slot with the world's largest bagpipe band. What happened to the band?