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NPR looks back on the first time the term "iPhone" was heard on our airwaves.

Over 130 "geriatric prisoners" who were serving life sentences are leaving Maryland prisons owing to a ruling by the state's highest court affecting criminal cases before 1980.

The question of what caused Easter Island's demise is a matter of hot debate. War is often blamed, but new research suggests that obsidian blades on the island were used for farming — not fighting.

Iran applauded the effort led by Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze oil production at January levels. But it would not commit itself to participating in plans to cap oil output to drive up prices.

The New York-based company, Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry, has taken over production from the Chicago-based R.S. Owens & Co., which had made the statues since 1982.

Singer-songwriter Cerys Matthews evokes Christmas in Wales by narrating excerpts from Dylan Thomas' holiday classic.

A naturalized citizen was stranded for more than a year in war-torn Yemen. The U.S. Embassy there says he admitted to identity fraud; the judge says the man was coerced into signing that statement.

The artist and thinker, who just released a new album, takes us from the drummers of Burundi to Adam Ant, Octavia Butler to David Bowie, Rakim to Young Thug.

The U.S. and Iran swapped prisoners last month, before the lifting of sanctions. But Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman, remains in an Iranian jail, raising concerns among the diaspora.

On Saturday, Democrats in Nevada will choose between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in what has been dubbed the "First in the West" caucuses. Clinton once had a large lead, but not anymore.