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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he never applied to West Point, although in his book, he had written that he was "offered a full scholarship" to the elite military academy.

Cheetahs don't often hunt at their top speed, scientists are finding. Come mealtime, what matters most is the animals' ability to accelerate and to take tight corners.

Roberta Drury grew up in the Syracuse area and moved to Buffalo a decade ago to help tend to her brother in his fight against leukemia. She was remembered for her love for family and friends.

Netflix's Stranger Things finale, which dropped Dec. 31, is shaking up the Billboard Hot 100.

Personal rapid transit was supposed to be the future of public transport: lightweight pods on elevated tracks, on-demand destinations. But funding issues make cities reluctant to change course.

Authors Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery discuss their new book, "Policing Black Bodies". From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police…

Dr. Tomi Gomory and His Co-Authored Book, "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis and Drugs"...Tune in for this provocative conversation with Dr.…

Wake Up Call Segment Host/Producer speaks with author Paul Starr about his new book, Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic…

Questions emerge over the fate of a U.S. Marine held by a militant group in Iraq. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun of Utah was shown in captivity in a video released last week. After a web site claimed Hassoun had been beheaded, the group supposedly responsible denied the report's credibility. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Anne Garrels.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Edward Wong of The New York Times about an assassination threat aimed at the interim prime minister for Iraq, Iyad Allawi. The threat came in a taped message on a radical Islamic Web site one day after the beheading of a South Korean translator by radical Islamic militants, who demanded South Korea abandon its plan to add troops to the U.S.-led military coalition.