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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com's World Memory Project allows people to sift online through hundreds of thousands of documents that previously required a painstaking manual search.

Ashley Dias needs lungs. So do lots of other patients. Scarcity is a problem with organ transplants, and, unlike other scarce resources, organs can't be bought or sold. Here's how doctors decide who gets to be at the top of the waiting list.

Every January 24 marks the beginning of Daniel Jackson Week, launching a series of concerts featuring Jackson and other local musicians.

North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.

One of three women on the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council survives an attempt to kill her. Aquila al-Hashimi is in stable condition after being shot outside her Baghdad home Saturday. She was in line to become the new Iraqi representative to the United Nations. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Did E. Coli Sicken Two U.S. Servicemembers in Germany?

Boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini won the championship his fighter father never could — but his life was marred by tragedy when he defended his title against a South Korean boxer who died after the match. A new biography of Mancini describes how his life changed after that fateful fight.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.

A day spent exploring contradictions along the Sea of Cortez: unspoiled nature, resort developments and old missions.

Airs Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV