History

This 10-armed fossil is the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids

4:57pm March 09, 2022

Researchers say they've found the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids, in a fossil dug up decades ago in Montana. But unlike octopuses, the creature has 10 arms.

Endurance shipwreck has been discovered in the Antarctic 107 years after sinking

4:23pm March 09, 2022

by Jackie Northam

The wreck of the expedition ship the Endurance has been discovered 107 years after it sank in the Antarctic. Explorers and technicians found it in pristine condition under 10,000 feet of icy water.

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Politics & Government

Congress passes an anti-lynching bill after more than a century of trying

5:08am March 08, 2022

After decades of failed attempts, Congress passed legislation making lynching a federal crime. It's estimated that more than 4,000 Black Americans were lynched since the late 19th Century.

A California woman had a huge bell taking up space in her garage

6:03am March 07, 2022

It resembled the Liberty Bell without the crack. She did some research and found its connection to Paul Revere, who had a foundry. His son made the bell. It's been returned to its original location.

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President Joe Biden signs the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 into law on Thursday.

Politics & Government

It's a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn't match

5:00am March 06, 2022

by Ron Elving

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

A view of a former power plant damaged during the Bosnian war in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, March 4, 2022.

World News

Watching Ukraine, Bosnians relive the trauma of their war

3:12am March 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Bosnian Serb forces laid siege to Sarajevo in the early 1990s. Some 350,000 people were trapped, subjected to daily shelling and cut off from regular access to electricity, food and medicine.

National

A visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson, to memorialize the victims of lynchings that took place in the U.S. after the Civil War.

Autherine Lucy Foster reacts during the dedication ceremony for Autherine Lucy Foster Hall in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 25, 2022.

National

First Black University of Alabama student dies days after a building is named for her

6:07pm March 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

Autherine Lucy Foster's death comes less than a week after university officials dedicated the campus building where she briefly attended classes in her honor.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Biden and Vice President Harris, speaks after being nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court at the White House on Feb. 25.

National

Civil rights activists are prepared to fight for Jackson's nomination to the court

3:48pm March 04, 2022

by Sandhya Dirks

The confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson are set for March 21. Activists who pushed for a Black woman are excited and ready for a fight.

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World News

How the memory of Nazi atrocities has come to play a role in Russia's war

6:48am March 03, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

Putin's claim that he is fighting a Nazi regime in Ukraine is a falsehood based on historical memory.

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