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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian William Hogeland about little-known facts he learned about founding father Alexander Hamilton while researching his new book, "The Hamilton Scheme."

If you really want to know what's going on in South Africa ahead of the election there, get in a minibus taxi, the main mode of transport in the country.

A professor who studies the effects of solar radiation on climate composed a string quartet piece using climate data converted to sound in a process called "sonification."

There are lots of reasons people have to stop taking the new weight loss drugs: cost, shortages, side effects and life events. And the weight usually comes back, doctors say.

A landslide in Papua New Guinea has buried some 670 people in six remote villages, according to the U.N. and Australia's foreign affairs ministry.

Richard Sherman, along with his brother Robert became Disney Studios' first ever in-house songwriters. We have a remembrance of the Oscar-winning songwriter, who has died at the age of 95.

Killer whales have been ramming and sinking boats and yachts in the Strait of Gibraltar. It turns out they're not being aggressive. They're just bored teenage whales, looking for something to do.

We look at the upcoming elections in the United Kingdom, where whichever party ends up in power will be facing a series of economic crises.

Leaders of East Asia's top powers, China, Japan and South Korea, are holding their first summit in 4 years. All have different motivations for keeping tensions among them in check.

There's a new slogan making the rounds in Minnesota spurred by an interview with an NBA Star. Instead of "Minnesota Nice", it's a more naughty way of telling people to come visit the state and the state's tourism agency and others have embraced it.