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Liza Hastings has been named Middle School Principal of the year for Maryland.Hastings is principal of Bennett Middle School.The Salisbury Daily Times…

Momentum is increasing to change Mississippi's official flag, which includes the Confederate battle flag's saltire.

Commentator Yvette Doss talks about doing nothing -- and the book Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz. Yvette Doss is managing editor at Ciudad magazine.

After more than 18 years at the helm of the nation's economy, Alan Greenspan steps down Tuesday. As head of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan presided over the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

As the real museum community waits to watch the movie A Night at the Museum, curators and guards tell of a few strange happenings they've seen in their museum work.

David Brock of the Computer History Museum tells us about Chuck Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe, which introduced desktop publishing.

One of the country's wealthiest Native American tribes, Colorado's Southern Ute, has spent $38 million on a museum and cultural center meant to teach outsiders and young Southern Utes about the tribe's history.

Japan's ruling party scored its biggest electoral win in its seven-decade history Sunday, due mostly to the popularity of its first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.

Raquel Coronell Uribe, a history and literature major from Miami, calls the role a "huge" honor: "Even if it took 148 years, I'm thrilled that I get to be in the position to be that first person."

As World War II ends, the United States becomes the great outside power in the Middle East, with three main concerns: Persian Gulf oil; support and protection of the new nation of Israel; and containment of the Soviet Union. NPR's Mike Shuster continues his six-part series on the history of Western involvement in the region.