Lindsey Vonn crashes, appears to hurt knee in final downhill race before Milan Cortina Olympics

Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the course for ...

Lindsey Vonn’s injuries range 3 decades. Torn knees and a thumb sliced open on a champagne bottle

From slicing her thumb open on a champagne bottle to repeatedly damaging her knees on downhill courses Lindsey Vonn’s injury ...

A more complete Latin American history, including centuries of US influence, helps students understand the complexities surrounding Nicolás Maduro’s arrest

High school students in the US often learn about Latin America through the lens of the US, as a main character that exerts ...

Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 recap: 'Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans'

Warning: Spoilers for absolutely everything in Fallout Season 2 Episode 7!

A new book tells the stories of the Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.
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What Was History’s Deadliest Era?

A recent history of guns and empire argues that early modern Europe marked the origins of a uniquely murderous era. But the world it describes is not so different from our own and making sense of its ...