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As 2020 rang in, there were inevitable promises to diet, exercise and save money. Poet Kwame Alexander shares a community poem of audience-submitted couplets inspired by broken New Year's promises.

Beijing repurposed some of the sites used in the 2008 Summer Games. The National Speed Skating Oval is the city's only new ice-sport venue built for the Winter Games.

A number of important literary and musical works are headed for the public domain on New Year's Day — including George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."

In each of these stories — Full Flight, Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman, Ophelia After All — a girl stands at a junction in her life, on the brink of deciding who she wants to be.

The prestigious architectural prize celebrates the 80-bed hospital's human-centered design, built in harmony with the waterlogged local environment with a modest budget and local low-cost materials.

The North Carolina Republican is accused of engaging in insurrection, which would make him ineligible for office under a provision in the 14th Amendment.

"I needed to ... take it out of the frame, which was old and dusty, to take a closer look because it is very rare to find something like this at a thrift store," said art expert Melanie Smith.

NPR's David Greene speaks with journalist Molly Woodstock about the Merriam-Webster dictionary selecting the singular, nonbinary pronoun "they" as the word of the year.

The OPEC oil cartel holds its monthly meeting Tuesday amid high prices driven by supply shortages and geopolitical tensions. Some analysts predict prices could go up to a $100 a barrel soon.

A gunman shot and killed a campus police officer and a safety officer at Bridgewater College Tuesday afternoon. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.