According to the publication, the roots of Times Square's notorious New Year's Eve celebration date back to 1904, when the ...

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that ...

For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter ...

It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to ...

Watching a huge ball descend down a pole in Times Square has been a beloved New Year's Eve tradition for over a century. Here ...

Carter lamented to NPR in 1993 that the Playboy interview morphed into “the No. 1 story of the entire 1976 campaign.” ...

The year's box office numbers were down, due to the residual effects of actors' and writers' strikes, but quality wasn't dimmed. Bob Mondello's list of the 10 best movies of the year overflows.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Stuart Eizenstat, a top domestic policy advisor in the Carter White House, about how former President Jimmy Carter put human rights at the center of foreign policy.

December 27, 2024; Washington, DC — The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will perform its iconic New Year's Day concert from the legendary Musikverein in Vienna on January 1, 2025, conducted by Riccardo ...

Some 350,000 soldiers from French colonies volunteered or were forced to fight for France in the World Wars. Their contributions have been mostly overlooked. (Story aired on ATC on Dec. 26, 2024.) ...

Many of the most-borrowed books in 2024, including 'romantasy' titles and memoirs, also appeared on public library lists in ...

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New ...