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It's a tradition: No matter who the performer is, someone in the crowd requests Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird." It happened at a recent Bob Dylan show. The surprise was that Dylan actually obliged.

The World Health Organization's cancer research agency listed coffee as a possible carcinogen in 1991. But the body of evidence now suggests that's not the case, and coffee may even protect health.

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at very low levels. Fed policymakers expressed worries about job growth, so they did not want higher rates to further cool hiring.

Ratf**ked author David Daley says that Republicans targeted key state legislative races in 2010 in an effort to control state houses, and, eventually, Congressional redistricting.

The word came from the Spanish filibusteroin the 1800s and had a root in the Dutch word v ribuiter or "freebooter." The original reference was to a mercenary who traveled around fomenting rebellion.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to three gay men who lived through the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and how losing friends and family during that time draws some parallels to Sunday's mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

The spiritual leader, visiting the White House, offered condolences for the shootings in Orlando. China, as usual, condemned the meeting, saying it encourages Tibetan separatists.

For over 40 years, Villapol hosted a popular cooking show in Cuba, her recipes shifting to reflect the realities of life under the revolution. No meat? No problem — she fried plantain peels instead.

The butter was preserved in a bog. Curators of the "bog butter" told The Irish Times that "theoretically the stuff is edible." All they need to do now is to uncover some ancient jam.

In an update to Congress, CIA chief John Brennan said the U.S. and its partners have put ISIS on the defensive. But that doesn't mean its global reach has been degraded.