History

The famous Sycamore Gap tree along Hadrian's Wall in northern England is seen in June, at top, and the new landscape on Thursday after someone cut the tree down.

Despair flows after England's Sycamore Gap tree is cut down. Could it regrow?

1:56pm September 29, 2023

The famous tree in northern England is believed to have been around 200 years old. Efforts are under way to salvage it through regrowth or grafting — or starting over from a new seed.

Lebanese-Armenian protesters hold flares with the colors of the Armenian flag near the Azerbaijani Embassy in Ain Aar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.

World News

The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora, shattering a dream

12:36am September 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The swift fall of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world.

When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from accepting my aid because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs? " Her experience is part of the new book Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World.

Health & Safety

A history of nurses: They once had the respect they're now trying to win

10:52am September 27, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago — and how they got pushed into the background.

An auction house sold two tickets to the play at Ford's Theatre from the night that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

National

Ford's Theatre tickets from the night Lincoln was assassinated sell for $262,500

1:53pm September 26, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

The two tickets match the marks of what's thought to be the only other used ticket from the night John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

500,000-year-old structure has researchers rethinking early human intelligence

5:10am September 26, 2023

by Gabriel Spitzer

A newly discovered wood construction is nearly 500,000 years old, and has archaeologists rethinking how technologically advanced the human who built it may have been. (Story aired on ATC on 9/21/23.)

Mayra Herrera, one of the women who gathered to celebrate the International Day of Afro-descendant Women in Tamiahua, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

Women of the Sea: Afro-descendants honor their heritage in Mexico

4:01pm September 25, 2023

by Koral Carballo

Through portraits and interviews with activists and artists, Koral Carballo sought out an answer to the question of what it means to be an Afro-Mexican woman today.

A rural mail carrier in 1905 trying out new transportation technology.

Horseless carriages were once a lot like driverless cars. What can history teach us?

10:00am September 25, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Historians say that a little more than a century ago, when cars first hit the roads, they caused nervous laughter and raised real concerns, much like driverless vehicles today.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on the House floor about the 14th round of voting for speaker on Jan. 6, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol.

Politics & Government

House GOP rebels recall a distant era when dissidents rose up against 'Czar Cannon'

8:06am September 23, 2023

by Ron Elving

Cannon resisted government regulation of business, supported protective tariffs and frowned upon change in general. It was said that had he been present at the Creation he would have voted against it.

A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here.

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

5:04pm September 22, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.

Queue Listen Now

Minnesota housing program aims to mend years of economic damage in black neighborhood

4:30pm September 22, 2023

by Matt Sepic

A housing program in St. Paul aims to reverse the economic damage caused by the construction of a highway that ran through and decimated a Black neighborhood.