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The National Park System turned 100 years old this week, and it got a very big present to mark the the occasion. We'll visit the new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Northern Maine.

You'll be asked to take two 3-letter words that are part of an 8-letter word. You have to figure out the entire word.

Sanders wrote the definitive book on the Manson Family ("The Family.") He's currently working on a book about Robert Kennedy. He's decided to sell the assembled work on which he's based his research.

When the court barred the execution of the intellectually disabled in 2002, Texas adopted the standard, based on John Steinbeck's character in Of Mice and Men, to define "intellectually disabled."

Jude Joffe-Block of member station KJZZ tells NPR's Scott Simon about Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who's facing both a primary challenge to his right and an aggressive Democratic opponent

More than a million asylum seekers arrived in Germany last year. After three months, they are allowed to work. The CEO of Daimler predicted a new "economic miracle." But it hasn't happened.

For our series "Next Chapter," the author of the award-winning YA novel "Brown Girl Dreaming" talks about how going to a largely white college made her aware of her blackness in a new way.

When a frequent crossworder noticed a hidden message in the New York Times crossword puzzle, he began an epic Twitter quarrel that got romantic, and a little bit sexy.

A small suburb of Damascus that was a symbol of resistance is no more. Daraya is all but a ghost town. After years of opposition to the Syrian regime, fighters and civilians were allowed to leave.

In North Carolina's capital Raleigh, sparks have been flying between scientists and politicians over possible carcinogens in the public water supply, from nearby coal ash pits.