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Abby Sunderland is far from the first teen to attempt to break a record by performing a feat usually left to seasoned pros. These young risk-takers have climbed mountains, flown planes, and sailed around the world.

After four decades of marriage, former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have announced they are separating. Here, a look back at the couple over the years, starting with their wedding day in 1970.

On the way out of Toy Story 3, critic Bob Mondello realized that he, like Buzz and Woody's owner, had kept one special toy into adulthood. So had other NPR staffers. What about you?

For decades, Perry, who died April 10, kept secret the fact that she was one of the teenage girls involved in the murder depicted in the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Originally broadcast in 1994.

On the Bowery in the '80s, Richard Avedon protégé Drew Carolan captured the mien of a subculture centered on midafternoon expressions of anger and community. The hardcore kids ain't kids no more.

One of the first openly gay editors working at a major publishing house, Denneny launched the Stonewall Inn Editions imprint. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 1994.

Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.

In sweeping indictments, the Justice Department targeted two dozen operatives in the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel. But many drug policy experts say this won't slow fentanyl deaths.

This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record. It rethinks popular music to put women at the center.

A Russian fighter jet had an "accidental discharge" of its payload over the Russian city of Belgorod on Thursday, according to Russia's Defense Ministry, causing injuries and damaging buildings.