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A new machine at the New York Public Library can read cracked and broken wax cylinders, and play recordings from regular people not heard in about 100 years. It's one of seven in the world.

The Washington Spirit, D.C.'s national women's soccer team, just sold for a record amount after a months-long ownership battle. It's a story of how sports teams are not a typical business investment.

Everyone has a movie they've just never marked off their watchlist. NPR's Weekend Edition wants to help.

More than 15,000 babies have been born in Ukraine since the start of the war. At a maternity hospital in Kyiv, new parents tell of the long road it took to get them to safety.

More than 12% of mail ballots were rejected for the primary. That's a far higher rejection rate than in previous contests.

From blockbusters like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to smaller films like Deliver Us From Evil, documentaries are drawing large audiences. But some worry that the Academy's new rules could hamper that trend.

Israeli troops and armored vehicles pull out of the West Bank city of Nablus after a two-day security operation, leaving behind a trail of smashed cars, broken windows and angry Palestinians. It was the largest military sweep in the West Bank in months. Israeli officials say Nablus has become the center of planned attacks on Israel.

After multiple delays, Microsoft's Vista operating system will go on sale Tuesday. Vista is the latest version of Windows, and it's the first upgrade in more than five years.

For the first time in five years, the African-American unemployment rate dipped. It went from 8.4 percent in December 2006 to 8 percent this January. Do the numbers indicate the job market is looking up for African Americans, or is the drop a one-time drop in the bucket?

A new report set for release on Thursday draws a devastating link between current drug policies in the United States and prison rape. The organization Stop Prisoner Rape is responsible for the study.