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Underground Cities And 'Ghost' Miners: What Some People Do For Gold

South Africa's Mponeng gold mine is a 2.5-mile-deep network of chutes and tunnels that employs about 4,000 miners. Of course, that number doesn't include the miners who wander its tunnels clandestinely, stealing and refining ore. In a new book, journalist Matthew Hart investigates why gold and crime sometimes go hand in hand.

Picture-perfect turkey? Ours might not turn out quite like this one. And that's OK.

It's Thanksgiving Already? How To Keep Calm And Cook On

How does this annual holiday still manage to sneak up on us sometimes? We've searched our archives for recipes and tips to help ease your mind amid the time crunch.

Key Takeaways From Supreme Court Term

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein and NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg about the decisions reached by the U.S. Supreme Court this term.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei receives a shot of COVIran Barekat, an Iranian-produced COVID-19 vaccine, in Tehran on Friday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Got A Locally Made COVID Shot But Vaccine Struggles Persist

Despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's publicized shot with an Iranian-made vaccine, few citizens have been able to get inoculated in the country hardest hit by the coronavirus in the Middle East.

The Best African Music Of 2008

This has been a strong year for African music, with two big trends emerging: the continuing integration of African music into the U.S. and European mainstream, as well as the ongoing unearthing of treasures from Afropop's "golden era," particularly the '70s.

World Food Program chief David Beasley speaks to The Associated Press in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Aug. 19, 2022.

U.N. food chief says billions of dollars are needed to avert unrest and starvation

The world will see mass migration, destabilized countries and starving people in the next 12 to 18 months without billions of dollars more funding, the U.N. World Food Program chief warned.

Directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan speak after winning the Oscar for best picture for <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once.</em>

In the end, it was an 'Everything Everywhere' night at the Oscars

Best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best actress, and best editing — Everything Everywhere All at Once won big again and again.

The Madison, Wis., office of Wisconsin Family Action was firebombed and vandalized on in May 2022. Nearly a year later, federal authorities say they tracked down a suspect with the help of DNA from a half-eaten burrito.

How a half-eaten burrito led to charges in the firebombing of an anti-abortion office

Federal officials say they've arrested a 29-year-old Wisconsin man in connection with the May 2022 incident. They found him with the help of forensics and fast food.

Former Solicitor General Ted Olson (2nd left) sits with Bush administration lawyers during the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Guantánamo detainees on July 11, 2006, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Onetime supporter of Guantánamo's military court now says it was 'doomed'

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson speaks with Sacha Pfeiffer about his change of heart on Guantánamo and his belief that the 9/11 case should be settled rather than taken to trial.

Likely 2016 hopeful Jeb Bush reportedly told a closed-door crowd his brother, former President George W. Bush, is one of his top foreign policy advisers.

Politics Rewind: Family Baggage And Fuzzy Math

This week in politics: Jeb Bush isn't doing a great job of separating himself from his brother, the GOP's diversity problem and were the polls really wrong again?

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