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In Laredo, Texas, an elite debutante ball is one of many events held to celebrate George Washington's birthday. A new documentary, Las Marthas, explores the tradition. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to director Christina Ibarra.

In 2004, Texas put an arbitrary cap on how many children could receive special education. Last year, the policy was deemed illegal, but some parents still struggle to enroll their kids in special ed.

NPR's Ina Jaffe talks with Scott Simon about the struggle to find the right words to describe older people. Longevity and lifestyles have changed and the language hasn't kept up.

Companies like Nielsen aren't able to easily measure the new ways people watch TV since Netflix and Amazon don't release their viewing numbers. Now a startup called Symphony aims to fill the void.

This week we're looking back at the year in music with a peek at NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013. It's the annual list assembled by our in-house experts, including NPR music writer and editor Stephen Thompson. He tells Audie Cornish about his picks in the world of indie pop.

The Massachusetts Republican Party has filed a series of public information requests to investigate the state’s mailings of voter registration forms to…

A specialty Norwegian cheese, brunost, proved so flammable that it burned for several days, badly damaging a Norwegian road tunnel.

The spin that one British newspaper has put on this otherwise unremarkable story may give you a laugh. So might the video that the Cape Cod Times produced.

Phil Brown, King's publicist, says the soul singer died of natural causes. King began his career with The Drifters, but it was "Stand by Me," released in 1961, that sealed his worldwide fame.

Award-winning historian MICHAEL BESCHLOSS (BEHSH-loss). He's just co-authored a new book, "At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War." (Little, Brown & Co.). BESCHLOSS and co-author Strobe Talbot were in contact with officials and communiques. in both American and Soviet governments, and with officials in NATO and the Warsaw Pact from about 1989 on. They meant to write about relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and ended up with a confidant's access to the end of the cold war. They show the close tie between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, and how the two were so closely attuned to each other that "it eventually caused both men to lose touch with their domestic constituencies." (This interview continues in the second half of the