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Once reserved for the exclusive use of Chinese royalty, black rice these days has become the darling of gourmets seeking superior nutrition. Now geneticists have traced where this rare rice came from.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jonah Keri of Grantland about some of the newcomers in this year's Major League Baseball playoffs, including the Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs.

California Gov. Jerry Brown: "I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain."

George Hodgman is the author of the memoir, Bettyville. He has also worked as an editor at Simon and Schuster, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin and Vanity…

We asked young voters to share their earliest political memories, and we heard about praying for George W. Bush, family members losing jobs and fears of terrorism.

A medical aid group says U.S. airstrikes on its hospital in Kunduz amount to a war crime. Analysts say an investigation is needed, but diplomatic fallout is more likely than a war-crime prosecution.

There's a growing number of WiFi hotspots, but access for an hour can cost a couple days' salary. It's leading to a sharp divide between those who can and can't afford it.

Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass," the committee announced Tuesday morning in Stockholm.

The Distiller’s List launched earlier this year. The website sells craft spirits and produces videos and stories about the elixirs online. But does this…

In the wake of the Oregon shootings, nothing is expected to pass Congress. And that's easily explainable.