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Kids return to school today across Alaska, including the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. On top of academic challenges, students sometimes…

Ken Jennings is the winner of the "Greatest Of All Time" tournament. He was the the first to win three games against James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. In 2004, Jennings had a 74-game wining streak.

The R&B superstar assembled some frequent collaborators — including Skrillex — for a six-song quarantine concert.

The Berlin Wall was a concrete manifestation of the barrier between democracy and oppression. NPR's Scott Simon marks the 30th anniversary of the day it began to come down.

The ongoing attempt to form a unity government in South Sudan is again failing to meet a deadline — it's been pushed back 100 days. The U.S. is upset but can do little about it.

The award-winning songwriter speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the value of melody, and writing a song about rain for a movie scene that had none.

Starting in 1959 and for decades after, he recorded some of country's greatest songs, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Jones was 81.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has suggested a connection between al-Qaida in North Africa and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. She did not give any further details on what role the al-Qaida affiliate may have played in the attack

Mile 101, Steese Highway, AK - The top two teams in this year’s Yukon Quest blew through the Mile 101 checkpoint early Sunday morning. The rivalry…

Three for a Song is a performing trio with a love for the 1930s, during which some of the greatest songwriters who ever lived wrote music that would enter the canon of American popular song. But the group has recently added a quirk to its repertoire: performing songs that were never popular.