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The Fillmore West in San Francisco hosted The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and other bands in the 1960s. As NPR celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back on important events of that year.

After Senate Republicans blocked plans for an outside commission to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the House will vote to create a special panel for a new investigation.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed environmental studies of its project to decommission and dismantle a mothballed nuclear power plant at Fort…

Joshua Cohen offers a fictionalized version of a real-life campus visit by the father of the former Israeli prime minister. The novel offers a funny take on serious things.

Vaughan combined an operatic sense of drama and vocal control with an improviser's risk-taking. A newly released 1969 concert recording is an ambitious showcase of her pop and classical sensibilities.

In Pipe Dreams, Chelsea Wald examines the health issues related to sanitation and looks at global efforts to manage human waste, including turning it into fuel and fertilizer.

Andrew Card served as White House Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush administration, working alongside Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He remembers his former colleague with NPR's Ari Shapiro.

NPR's Noel King talks to investigative reporter Nicki Weisensee Egan, author of Chasing Cosby, about Bill Cosby's 2018 sexual assault conviction being overturned on appeal.

In the spirit of Independence Day, we meet the guild of bellringers that is still pulling the ropes at Boston's Old North Church. Just like Paul Revere did nearly 300 years ago.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is sending National Guard troops to Texas at the request of that state's governor. A private donation is funding the deployment. It's not clear that that's legal.