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Zuists get together now and then to read ancient Sumerian poetry but make no secret of their broader goals.

The U.S. doesn't grow many vegetables indoors. We have California, Arizona and Latin America to supply us in winter instead. But entrepreneurs are betting on greenhouses to supply more fresh food.

A budget crisis in Illinois has revealed the cost of the state fair's butter sculptures. Courtney Crowder, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, talks about all that butter sculpture money.

The wave of mass shootings in the U.S. is renewing a debate over treating gun violence as a public health issue. Congress has stood in the way of federal funding for studying injuries and deaths.

Researchers analyzing pottery fragments and bones at a neolithic settlement near Stonehenge believe roast pork and beef stew were likely main courses for people visiting the famous English monument.

NPR examines whether Donald Trump's statements on Muslim immigration will mark a decisive shift in the media's treatment of the presidential candidate.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Rick Wilson, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Matt Moore, a chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, about Donald Trump's controversial proposal.

Call it Comb-overgate. When Josh Earnest took a shot at Donald Trump's hair, NPR's Mara Liasson wanted to know what that had to do with whether Trump is running a serious campaign.

Frank Deford wonders why it took so long to build a monument commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by terrorists at the Munich Summer Olympics 43 years ago.

Thousands from the island, fearful the U.S. will change its preferential immigration policy, are trying to come here from the south — but many are stuck at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border.