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This is different from Kickstarter, which facilitates gifts, not investments. On the new federally regulated sites, you'll be able to make an investment, although there's no guarantee it will pay off.

Music from The Honey Dewdrops, Kate Callahan, Hanneke Cassel, Seth Glier, Shawn Camp, Danny Schmidt, Simple Gifts, John Jennings, Spook Handy, Doug Irwin,…

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Boehner has eaten breakfast at the Capitol Hill restaurant for nearly 20 years. "All of us call him John-John. None of us call him House speaker, none of us call him by that," owner Gum Tong said.

Credit (or blame) goes to France, which wanted more babies in the 19th century. Like most government plans to influence birthrate, it didn't quite work.

Umberto Eco's new novel centers around a fictional Italian newspaper in the '90s. Its editor believes a conspiracy theory about Mussolini's murder. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Eco about Numero Zero.

As one sport's season comes to a close another is just beginning. NPR's Tom Goldman and NPR's Scott Simon discuss the World Series and take a first look at the NBA season.

Michael Fitzgerald Wilson was one of 6,000 non-violent offenders released from prison as the U.S. reconsiders sentences for non-violent drug crimes.

Trivia expert A.J. Jacobs tells NPR's Scott Simon that Frankenstein may not have been such a brute after all. And Dracula was just misunderstood.

A crowded club in Bucharest became the scene of tragedy Friday night, after a fire broke out, spreading flames and smoke and causing a panic among the young patrons.