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Meryl Davis and Charlie White are the first Americans to win gold in the event. They out-skated longtime rivals Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada. Russians Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov finished third.

The daughter of an Argentine exile and the daughter of a Cuban exile come to realize that despite their fathers' political differences, Pope Francis has come to mean something similar to both.

The reports from the border this week sent a collective shudder through many Japanese American communities around the country.

A Jordanian police officer shot and killed at least four people, including two U.S. security contractors hired to train Palestinian police. The shooter also died in the attack in Amman, the capital.

It means no matter what happens, the U.S. will earn two more medals tomorrow.

A Yale University project has organized and mapped photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information from 1935 to 1946. Now there's an online tool to explore them.

Anti-American anger in the Arab world is at an all-time high, shaped by the Iraq war -- and a perception that U.S. foreign policy is hostile to Arab and Muslim concerns. NPR's Deborah Amos concludes her series on Iraq's Arab neighbors.

New Hampshire indentured servant turned novelist Harriet Wilson wrote Our Nig more than a century ago. The work is the first known publication by an African American woman. Now Wilson will become the first person of color in New Hampshire history to have a monument in her likeness.

Video games are huge. But when you factor in everything — rentals, on demand, etc. — Americans still spend way more on movies.

Indian-Americans make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, but they've won the past four National Spelling Bees and 9 of the past 13. How has this tiny community become a spelling dynasty, and why are they so driven to win?