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Fallen commodities magnate Eike Batista has returned to Brazil to face charges. Prosecutors say Batista, once one of the world's richest people, was a player in a $100 million laundering/bribery ring.

Five popular toys have never made it into the Toy Hall of Fame but at least one of those wrongs will be righted this year in a special contest open to the public.

Don't feel like celebrating Valentine's Day? Feb. 14 is also Ferris Wheel Day and National Organ Donor Day.

Election campaigns are a great way for reporters to see the U.S. NPR's Don Gonyea checked off visiting state number 50 on a visit to Wyoming, and says it was a great way to mark the milestone.

In a surprising move, Seattle has repealed a tax meant to help the city address its growing homelessness problem. Many saw the tax as targeting one of the city's largest employers: Amazon.

Have you got "rizz"? Oxford University Press has selected this shortened form of "charisma" as its word of the year.

See highlights of a Kaiser Family Foundation/NPR survey on the effects of long-term joblessness.

Young people in Gaza have seen their lives upended since the beginning of the conflict in Israel.

E.B. White's classic children's book is ostensibly about a spider and a pig. But author Michael Sims says the story is really about the barn the critters live in, based on a real barn on White's Maine farm.

The New Testament is constantly being re-interpreted from a variety of perspectives — from feminists, to socialists, to traditionalists; there's even a version as seen through the prism of Star Wars. Now you can add to the collection The Jewish Annotated New Testament, the first annotated version of the New Testament from an entirely Jewish point of view.