Our guest on today's show are one of the biggest bands ever to appear on World Cafe. They've released several multiplatinum ...

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Cher and Carol Burnett, two of Bob Mackie’s longest collaborators, are paying tribute to the legendary fashion designer after his death at age 87. “My dear Bob has gone up to heaven,” Cher, 80, wrote ...

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He said, Come with me! Take Daddy’s hand. How all the stories begin. A large hand lowered, your small hand lifted. She isn’t sure, she admits, exactly what happened. Or when. She knows that she was ...

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The great fall bird migration of 2026 is underway across North America. But there’s a reason you may not see much of it: Some of the biggest movements happen high above us while we’re sleeping. Step ...

As a kid, Jorg Massen would watch birds swoop and swirl overhead and wonder whether they were doing it for enjoyment. Massen is now a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and ...

Archaeopteryx is an icon of evolution and is often called the first bird. Scientists have long debated just how it took off from the ground but a recent study published by my colleagues and I has ...

Cincinnati Reds superstar Elly de la Cruz is quietly submitting perhaps the best season of his young career. Aaron Doster / Imagn Images CINCINNATI — Elly De La Cruz has long been considered a ...