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  • The sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated for the Vivid Sydney festival on May 24, in Sydney, Australia.
    Three Years In A Row, Australia Named Happiest Place By OECD
    The United States was ranked No. 6 behind Australia, Sweden, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. Australia was the only developed economy to dodge the global recession.
  • Nike Is Cutting Ties To The Livestrong Charity
    Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong founded the cancer charity in 1997. After years of denials, he admitted in January that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career. Nike earlier cut ties with Armstrong. Now it is parting ways with the foundation.
  • Genetic changes in signaling pathways in the brain may cause schizophrenia.
    Each Family May Have Schizophrenia In Its Own Way
    Some families with a history of schizophrenia share genetic variants on one brain pathway, a study finds. And the family members with schizophrenia are more likely to share symptoms. This may help researchers decipher the frustratingly complex genetics of schizophrenia.
  • Karla Miller competed in the national bees of 1984, 1985 and 1986. Her best finish was 31st, when she went out on the word "dashiki." Today, Miller is a writer and editor. At right, a recent snapshot of Miller and her daughter.
    What Happens To Spelling Bee Kids? Years Later, The Prize Is Perspective
    NPR tracked down former top spellers to see how they're faring, decades after their early successes.
  • Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
    "The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. The book, set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973, is part horror novel and part supernatural thriller. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.
  • This Week in the Civil War - 564
    On Tuesday, May 5, 1863 former congressman Clement Vallandigham, leader of the Northern Copperheads, was arrested in Dayton, Ohio. Tried by a military…
  • This Week in the Civil War - 568
    Confederate General Joseph Johnston had been in command of all Confederate troops in Mississippi, including those at Vicksburg, for less than a week when…
  • This Week in the Civil War - 569
    On Wednesday, May 13, 1863 Abraham Lincoln in response to a letter by Joseph Hooker, in which the general cited problems within his Union Army of the…
  • This Week in the Civil War - 570
    Following the Union occupation of Jackson, Mississippi, General Joseph Johnston, overall Confederate commander in Mississippi, ordered General John…
  • Woody Guthrie with his parents, Nora Belle and Charley, and brother George, at their home in Okemah, Okla., in 1926.
    Coming Home: The Woody Guthrie Center Opens In Tulsa
    The folk music icon's relationship with his home state has always been complicated. To many in Oklahoma, Guthrie's progressive political views didn't fit with a strong conservative streak during the Cold War period. His reputation there is now closer to full restoration as Tulsa opens his archives.
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