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It's graduation season at colleges and universities around the country. We hear selections of commencement addresses culled from decades past.

Botanical gardens from around the world testing who has the strongest lily pad.

Visitors to the White House will now have something besides their memory to rely on when recounting their visit. That's because a 40-year-ban on photography during public tours has been lifted.

Buena Vista Social Club Trumpeter Manuel Mirabal < > died on Monday.

Shipwreck hunters found the SS James Carruthers, a wheat-carrying cargo ship that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It's belly up in the bed of Lake Huron.

Jonathan Derr of Silver Spring, Md., works for the Food and Drug Administration. Last week, he was one of the estimated 800,000 federal workers furloughed because of the partial government shutdown.

Poland said Wednesday it had shot down Russian drones that has entered its airspace. NPR reports on the latest.

In Brazil, a seven-year-old horse who survived catastrophic floods in the south of the country has become a symbol of hope.

Turns out, cockroach milk is among the most nutritious substances on Earth. But it may still be a while before you can scurry to health stores for roach-milk protein shakes.

The volcano, popularly known as "El Popo" in Mexico, is rumbling and spewing ash, as people living in its shadow prepare for a possible evacuation.