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Nasty generalizations from a series of 19th-century children's guides to the world form the basis of Todd Pruzan's book. He sees the work of Mrs. Mortimer as "a snapshot of Victorian prejudice."

The bloodshed appeared to represent the deadliest day for the country since the military coup in February. It came as the military junta marked the annual Armed Forces Day holiday.

On Sunday an Amtrak passenger train seemingly traveling on the wrong track, crashed into a freight train and derailed in South Carolina, killing the Amtrak engineer and a conductor.

In 2000, anthropologist Susan Phillips found markings made by hobos near the Los Angeles River. Phillips talks about the possible author of those marks from 1914, one of America's most famous hobos.

"Hospitalizations are as high as we've ever seen them," warns Dr. Peter Margolis of Cincinnati Children's Hospital when discussing what the city faces…

David Greene talks to Dee Margo, mayor of El Paso, Texas, who met with Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan on Wednesday during a visit to the border.

Benjamin Alire Saenz won this year's PEN/Faulkner award for his latest collection of short stories, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. The real-life Kentucky Club is just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and Saenz joined a reporter there to talk about life in two countries.

An outbreak of the new coronavirus is fading in China, just in time for spring. And so people are finally emerging from their apartments after two months of lockdowns.

Nineteen-year-old Miranda Barbour and her husband have been accused of one grisly murder. Now, she has told a Pennsylvania newspaper that she's been killing people since she was 13, and that "I stopped counting" at 22 victims. Authorities are investigating.

A satellite company's call for crowdsourcing to help find the missing Malaysia Airlines jet brought a strong response on the Internet, placing an "unprecedented load" on the company's servers.