National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt didn't let motherhood put her career on hold. In a new book, the award-winning photographer shares how she managed motherhood and global adventure during her 30-year career at the magazine.
The nationwide contest Poetry Out Loud draws 200,000 high school students who recite — by heart — classic and contemporary poems. This year's winner was Shawntay Henry from St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Henry read "Frederick Douglass" by Robert E. Hayden.
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The Democratic presidential campaigns are crisscrossing Indiana, stopping in Republican strongholds such as Martinsville. In this town with a troubled racial history, voters share their views on the match-up between a white woman and a black man.
Never leave a Marine behind. That tradition began in 1775, and continues today via officers like Col. Steve Beck, whose job it is to notify families of the loss of a loved one in Iraq. Beck — and the families he contacted — is the subject of journalist Jim Sheeler's new book, Final Salute.
The U.S. Border Patrol is now checking the citizenship of passengers on domestic ferry routes around Washington state's San Juan Islands. Some passengers say having to identify themselves when traveling inside the U.S. is a violation of privacy.
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The Shakers — a religious group that splintered from an English Quaker community in the 18th century — did sustainable way before sustainable was cool. They left behind recipes for simple, wholesome food prepared with exactness and imagination.
A record 7,000 U.S. stores could close this year, a retail analyst predicts, citing cuts in consumer spending and retailers' struggles to borrow money and fend off competition.
A deadly disease that has ravaged bat populations in the Northeast is spreading faster than expected, according to federal researchers, who have confirmed fresh outbreaks of "white-nose syndrome" in Connecticut and eastern Vermont.
When the gates swing open at Saturday's Kentucky Derby, 20 thoroughbreds will kick off a mad dash that crams three of the sport's most prestigious races into five weeks. And, at a mile and a quarter, the Derby's racecourse is just too long for young horses to cover.
The oud is one of the world's oldest string instruments, dating back as much as 4,000 years. But on their new album Majaz, three Palestinian siblings prove that its traditions are still evolving.
Fareed Zakaria's new book, The Post-American World, argues that the rise of China, India, Brazil and other countries pose a special challenge to the U.S. in this century. He draws a comparison to Britain's experience in the Boer War in South Africa.
For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to finish one of his best-loved works, Turandot. Now, a young Chinese composer has put a new spin on the famous opera set in a mythical China.
In his new book, journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the exploration of America that occurred before Jamestown. Among his discoveries: the fact that early European explorers reached about half of the states in the present-day continental U.S., including, in the 1540s, the plains of what is now Kansas.
He's helped many people through painful passages in their lives. And he's faced his own: Since a near-fatal auto accident in 1979, he's been paralyzed from the chest down. Gottlieb has had nearly three decades to come to terms with the changed circumstances of his body — but now, he fears, that body may be growing tired.
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Music critic Lloyd Schwartz first met poet Elizabeth Bishop when she moved to Cambridge in the early 1970s after living in Brazil for nearly 20 years. Now Schwartz has co-edited a new collection of work by the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright told the National Press Club that attacks on him are really attacks on the black church. Earlier comments about race and the Sept. 11 attacks by Barack Obama's former pastor have caused controversy for the presidential campaign.
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Florida's House joins the Senate in passing legislation that would allow — or require — teachers to present alternate theories of how life evolved. Proponents say the issue is academic freedom. But critics say the bills would introduce religion into public schools.
In Lee County, Fla., thousands of foreclosures take place each month. But one area real estate agent has tried to make the best of a bad situation. Each week, Marc Joseph organizes bus tours around abandoned properties in Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
A new court in Buffalo is working with the Veterans Affairs Department to help veterans such as Gary Pettingill, who was busted in a drug sweep, get back on their feet. Court officials hope that reaching out to troubled veterans will help reduce the risk of suicide or violence.
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Scientists all over the world are matter-of-factly amending, changing and rearranging living creatures for all kinds of reasons, some silly, some profound. Take the case of the MIT team that made the icky-smelling bacteria E. coli and gave it a wintergreen-scented twist.
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