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In one of the most highly contested Olympic bids in history, the International Olympic Committee announces that the 2012 games will go to London. Paris seemed a near shoo-in, but a strong catch-up campaign from Britain brought the decision down to the wire.

Federal law prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion and gender — but not sexual orientation. Follow the history of gay rights and discrimination in the workplace, from the anti-gay witch hunts of the McCarthy era to pending anti-discrimination legislation today.

The Jayhawks break a 59-year-old record in staging the greatest comeback in NCAA title game history.

The Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., has a rich, complex history and was destined to be a "Winter White House" long before Donald Trump came along.

Recent floods in Michigan have unleashed a torrent of mud that hit the Midland Center for the Arts. Volunteers have spent all weekend packing wet historical documents into freezers.

The honorary lecture series is deemed the highest honor the federal government gives for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

The creative minds behind Buena Vista Social Club have guided an effort by Cuban and African musicians to create a new album, AfroCubism. Deep history underlies the musical interplay on the record, as well as a surprising number of similarities.

Polygamist Warren Jeffs is in jail in Utah awaiting a hearing on charges that he arranged plural marriages of underage girls to much older men. Jeffs is confined in a county jail at Purgatory Flats.

NPR's Scott Simon draws parallels between Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident and journalist who was sentenced to 25 years in prison this week, and other courageous figures in history.

The Palisades and Eaton fires are among the most destructive in California history. At least 24 people have been killed and thousands displaced in the wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area.