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Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?

An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.

New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman's new novel, The Idiot, follows a young woman's first year at Harvard University, and how she finds love through email.

The Secret Service took a driver into custody late Saturday. Earlier that day a man jumped over a bike rack trying to get past a White House fence. And on March 10 an intruder breached the perimeter.

It's hard to imagine two more different political figures. Whether these polar opposites can collaborate may be the single biggest factor in determining the future of the trans-Atlantic partnership.

Flights are being redirected and thousands of people have evacuated from Paris' Orly Airport.

Chinese immigrants came to the Mississippi Delta as agricultural laborers. Many moved on to become grocers in African-American neighborhoods. Some stores remain, but many folks have moved on and away.

A video of NPR Beijing correspondent Anthony Kuhn asking a question about a policy to expand the Beijing region got millions of views on Weibo, China's answer to Twitter. Here's why.

For more than 40 years, Paul Shaffer has been providing the soundtrack for late night TV. He was on the first generation of Saturday Night Live and appeared for 30 years with David Letterman.