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The New York Yankees are changing a nearly 50-year-old policy that banned beards. Here are some things to know about the history of beards in major league baseball.

MI6 may be the world's most legendary secret service, but fiction and film can't uncover its actual history. For that, you need BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera and his new book, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6.

JoAnne Bland was 11 when she marched in Selma on March 7, 1965, known today as "Bloody Sunday." Her tours are a window into the violence of that day and her city's role in the fight for civil rights.

Former President Donald Trump prides himself on being a tough negotiator and winning arguments, but he’s often flummoxed with one kind of opponent – a powerful woman.

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic violence there.

No one won an estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, meaning the big prize will grow to an estimated $800 million for the next drawing, the fifth-largest in U.S. history.

Trump administration officials will soon determine which signs and exhibits at the country's 433 national historical sites and parks must be removed because of language or materials that "inappropriately" disparage Americans.

The massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and eight other monuments will move to the museum after the city council approves the plan.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with comedian Roy Wood, Jr., about his new podcast, "Road to Rickwood," about the legendary ballfield in Birmingham, Ala., that hosted a major league ballgame this month.

Citizen-soldiers are joining Ukraine's new international brigade of foreign fighters. They include Poles who compare Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the Soviet Union's brutal occupation of Poland.