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Liane Hansen reads from a young listener's letter. Jessi Hall, 16, from Jamestown, Ohio, wrote a poem about the space shuttle Columbia.

Sunset and a strong storm happened at just the right time for a celestial treat. The resulting rainbows were so stunning, they were documented all over Twitter.

A parent's checklist: car safety seat; jogging stroller; Mardi Gras ladder. Commentator Chris Rose finds you can still have fun on Carnival in New Orleans when you're a parent — you just need a few more accessories.

The Reuters news agency retracts a photo from Beirut that it says was electronically altered. The picture, taken by a freelance photographer, shows thick, black smoke rising over buildings. In the original image, the smoke is less intense.

Edward P. Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Known World, a tale of black slave owners in the antebellum South. His latest work is the short story collection All Aunt Hagar's Children. Washington, D.C. — Jones' home town — is a major character in the stories.

One of the dolls, a collaboration with Mexican fashion designer Benito Santos, has already sold out.

Biologist and environmental activist E.O. Wilson died on Sunday at the age of 92. Wilson advocated for biodiversity and conservation.

The creator of the KonMari method says there are other things that spark joy besides a totally tidy home.

The federal government is preparing to shed up to a quarter of its 360 million square feet of real estate, an NPR analysis finds. The agency in charge of federal real estate is also slashing staff.

The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of victims killed in the South Pacific island nation's interior. Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster occurred.