Katherine Lanpher

After the news of Michael Jackson’s death, his fans went out into the streets and to the places that he was associated with in their cities. Togther, they shared memories, listened to...

Timeline of gay rights since the Stonewall Riots » Forty years ago this weekend, while the nation was mourning the death of singer Judy Garland, New York City police raided a ...

Millions of people around the world are mourning the death of Michael Jackson. What's the reaction beyond the U.S.? Roz Atkins is host of the BBC show World Have Your Say and has been...

Farrah Fawcett died yesterday after a long fight with cancer. She had a face that launched a million lunch boxes and a smile (and figure) that sold over 12 million posters. And a hair...

When the news broke of Michael Jackson’s death, people in and around his hometown of Gary, Indiana, made their way to his childhood home at 2300 Jackson Street. Chicago Public Radio r...

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died yesterday afternoon at the age of 50. Details of his death will not be known until a full autopsy is done. But what we do know is the legacy he ...

The rhetoric between the White House and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heating up, with the Obama administration accusing Ahmadinejad of trying to blame the U.S. for the re...

150 years after the Civil War, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to apologize for the nation's ignominious history of slavery. The resolution passed unanimously. But who does the re...

You might think that the image of the bumbling father is as old as parenthood itself, but just in time for Father’s Day, The Takeaway talks to one father who says differently. Jeremy ...

For almost a week now, the protests in Iran have topped the news headlines. Thousands of protesters have filled the streets while others fill university halls to hear the Ayatollah. W...

As protests continue, our partners at the BBC continue to receive interesting emails direct from Iran. Joining us is the BBC's Siavash Ardalan, a presenter with an international talk ...

Much has been made of the microblog Twitter and its influence on the ongoing protests in Iran. In fact, over the weekend the U.S. State Department asked Twitter to postpone scheduled ...

With all the contentious debate over health care right now, Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: they want to encourage disease prevention. This stems from the idea that by i...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress asked eighth graders across the country in 2008 a series of questions on music and visual art. The results of that test, revealed on Mo...

As golf's U.S. Open starts up, the biggest story is the weather. Days of rain in New York have made for a group of soggy players and an extremely wet course. Tiger Woods tries to defe...

Tens of thousands of people gathered at Tehran University to hear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speak. Despite Khamenei's assurances that the election was fair, and his urging...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that post-conviction DNA testing is not a Constitutional right for convicted criminals. So far, post-conviction DNA testing has exonerated at least 232 peo...

The question of whether the presidential election results in Iran were fair may never be answered. The BBC's Jonathan Marcus joins us with his analysis of the unfolding situation. And...

After days of protest over the disputed presidential election that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power in Iran, demonstrators are once again taking to the streets. To give us ...

NASA is set to blast off probes on Thursday in a lunar exploration mission to scout water sources and landing sites in anticipation of humans' return to the moon. NASA was hoping to s...