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The soldier said he opened fire on the American convoy because they failed to stop at the gate outside a Jordanian air base. He was convicted by a Jordanian military court.

The state's education department is demanding school districts comply with a previous decision to nix all Native American mascots, team names and logos.

Most people don't expect to work beyond retirement age, but for a growing number of older people, it's a reality. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are still working. For those 75 years and older, 7 percent are still on the job. An NPR series profiles some of these working seniors.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor about Terrance Hayes' new collection American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. Every poem is a sonnet, and every sonnet is titled: "American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin."

Legend has it that in Finland, there was a gang that attacked villages and carried away the women. In Maine, to commemorate the legend, guys carried their wives through an obstacle course.

Macomb, IL – This year's natural disasters have left the American Red Cross' National Disaster Relief Fund severely low, so chapters across the U.S. are…

The community supported President Obama in 2008, and polls show most are doing so this time around. But some of those voters are concerned about the way Obama has handled issues important to Arab-Americans.

New England native Peter Theo Curtis was freed Sunday, after being held by Islamic militants in Syria since October 2012. Another American journalist, James Foley, was killed in Syria last week.

Two U.S. news organizations, CNN and the Associated Press, were granted interviews with three men detained by North Korean authorities.