History

Pope Francis accompanied by Governor-General Mary Simon, right, arrives at the Citadelle de Quebec on Wednesday in Quebec City, Quebec City, Quebec.

World News

The pope's apology to Indigenous people doesn't go far enough, Canada says

9:33am July 28, 2022

by The Associated Press

The pope apologized to Indigenous peoples for abuses in church-run residential schools. Canada's response suggests that reconciliation over the fraught history is still a work in progress.

Amelia Earhart statue joins the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall

5:13am July 28, 2022

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The statue is one of two to represent Kansas in the Capitol's Statuary Hall Collection.

Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the Peanuts in 1968.

A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

5:13am July 28, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

Lawmakers gathered at the the Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection for the dedication and unveiling ceremony of a statue in honor of Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most celebrated aviators and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Oce

National

An Amelia Earhart statue joins the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall

8:47pm July 27, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

A statue honoring the aviation pioneer is now part of the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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'Throughline': There's more to the board game Monopoly than you might think

5:04am July 27, 2022

Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history — sales went up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The game is built on powerful American lore: anyone can rise from rags to riches.

Arts

Encore: Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend

4:27pm July 26, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

A dreamy woman in white painted by James McNeill Whistler is the center of a new show at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

In 1998, animated insects skittered onto movie screens in A Bug's Life and Antz.

Seeing double: Near-identical films that came out at the same time

11:06am July 26, 2022

by Bob Mondello

What happens when two studios are making the same movie and neither studio blinks?

National

Freedom fighter Denmark Vesey is being honored in the same city where he was executed

5:10pm July 25, 2022

by Victoria Hansen

Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial celebration was held earlier in July for Vesey.

Firefighters put out hot spots from the Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 11.

Decades of 'good fires' save Yosemite's iconic grove of ancient sequoia trees

7:58pm July 19, 2022

by Eric Westervelt

Saving the centuries-old trees in Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove took hard work from firefighters but also half a century of intentional fires.

A Black church in Alabama and 32 other sites get a historic preservation lifeline

4:56pm July 19, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Brent Leggs and Maxwell Brown Chapel AME Church's Juanda about grants to preserve African-American cultural sites.