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Ask 19-year-old Lizandra Nevarez where she's from and she'll say a village in Durango, Mexico -- even though she was born and raised in Chicago. Her mother and grandmother were born in Durango. Not long ago, she went back.

Rickie Lee Jones' first original album in four years comes with a little heaven-sent inspiration. The Grammy Award winner's new album, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard, was inspired by the words of Jesus, and tells stories of the worldly and the divine.

Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the independent Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta, was on a train heading from Moscow to Samara when a man threw red paint on him.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns returns to PBS with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a profile of the world's first African-American heavyweight boxing champ.

No injuries were reported following the weekend blaze at Disneyland, officials said. One visitor said Mickey Mouse vanished from the stage as soon as the dragon's head became engulfed in flames.

The ribbon has officially been cut on the reopening of Barelas Park situated in the historic Albuquerque neighborhood

Comic books have become a new frontier for the portrayal of scientific ideas and the drama of discovery. But they're also a battleground for the ongoing debate between evolutionary scientists and proponents of creationism.

Director Robert Rodriguez says that even on the page, artist Frank Miller's dark, violent stories have a cinematic quality. NPR asked filmmaker Kevin Smith to interview Rodriguez and Miller about the new movie.

The layoffs are the latest signal of a major shift within the streaming giant as it recently reported a decline in subscribers for the first time in a decade, as well as slowing revenue growth.

It's hard to imagine a school with no tests, no grades and no classes. But those familiar elements of education are missing at two dozen Big Picture schools in six states. Margot Adler visits one called The Met, the 10-year-old model for the schools, in Providence, R.I.