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There’s probably no more appropriate place for a Memorial Day ceremony than Liberty Lake, Washington. This morning [Monday], the city marked the day with…

Oregon lawmakers have signed off on a bill that would make it easier for transgender people to change their identity on state government documents like...

Denise DiNoto plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Efrem Mallach plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Don Bottomley of Beaverton, Ore. plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Folk-music legend Odetta was a force in the 1960s push for social justice. Her passion inspired fellow musicians and activists such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. Odetta died Dec. 2, 2008, at the age of 77. Hear a 2005 interview.

From Stagecoach to The Graduate, movies have helped to shape our world. Nick Clooney, former host of cable's American Movie Classics, joins NPR's Bob Edwards to talk about his new book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen. NPR Online has the list of the 20 movies featured in Clooney's book.

The estimate comes from scientists who examined the number of carcasses they found up to 48 hours after a fire event. The rate of climate change makes such wildfires inevitable, they say.

Sam Hass plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

No, that’s not snowflakes you’re seeing on these sunny fall afternoons. It’s clouds of smoky-winged ash aphids that showing up in the Northwest, floating through the air like drifting snow or ash falling from wildfires.