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Food assistance program SNAP looks set to pause from Friday.

Will-o’-the-wisps are an unexplained natural phenomenon that legend says are the spirits of those who died in the swamp.

Millions of Americans will lose federally funded benefits such as food help starting Saturday.

In Greece, like much of Europe and the world, birth rates are sharply declining and populations are quickly aging.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Florence Welch, who heads Florence and the Machine, about her new album, Everybody Scream.

The ouija board may now be the stuff of slumber parties and freaking yourself out with your friends, but has its roots in the much heavier spiritualist movement of the 1800s.

Relations between the two neighbors hit a low point this month, with fighting killing people on both sides of the border. At issue is a rise in militancy in Pakistan since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

The federal program provides food, formula and support to about 262,000 people in North Carolina.

We hear from Myles Lock who will be a volunteer runner setting a pace for other runners in this weekend's TCS NYC Marathon.

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands.