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Sanctions were lifted against Iran even as more limited ones were imposed on those violating resolutions against ballistic missile tests. David Greene talks to Thomas Erdbrink of The New York Times.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello has been listening to the Star Wars hype train. Here's why he isn't climbing aboard.

Regina Mason's great-great-great-grandfather, a man named William Grimes, was a runaway slave and the author of what is now considered to be the first fugitive slave narrative.

NPR Music has hosted hundreds of musicians at our Tiny Desk. Now, we're looking for the next great talent to play here. Could that be you?

Airs Tuesday, February 2, at 6 p.m. Once again ornithologist Cliff Shackelford, from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, took questions about all...

German producer and musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt was an early champion of so-called world music. Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two cross-cultural rarities Berendt produced in the late 1960s.

The city's water department has outsourced the maintenance of a three-mile levee to a herd of goats.

Legend has it that Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders organized marches at the tables of Paschal's restaurant.

With the sanctions lifted, Iran will be able to export oil, but prices are tumbling, thanks in part to Saudi Arabia flooding the market.

European and Asian companies are expected to flock to Iran now that the U.N. sanctions are lifted. American companies are having to sit on the sidelines because of secondary sanctions, and out of caution in dealing with the Iranians.