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Poet and author Quan Barry — born in Vietnam but raised in America — says she wants her new novel to help get rid of some of the preconceptions Americans have about Vietnam as a quagmire.

It's called chikungunya. And it causes severe joint pain that can last for months. A quarter of a million people have caught the virus in the Caribbean. So how big a problem will it be stateside?

The band's fourth album is the product of a cross-country sojourn by singer Erika Wennerstrom.

Four-year-old Damai is "being a great mom, and is nursing and grooming both cubs," zoo officials say. There was no immediate word on the sex of the cubs.

Shavonnte Taylor was riding the subway in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, headed to a prenatal doctor's appointment — a few weeks before her due date. She was changing trains when contractions started. Fellow riders — including an EMT — sprang into action. And in a few minutes, right there on the platform, a healthy boy was born, appropriately at a station called L'Enfant (French for "The Child") Plaza.

As West Virginia celebrates its 150th birthday this week, the state's chief historian tells the story of how western Virginians created a secession within a secession.

Thousands of protests took place around the country today, against the Trump administration. We hear from people who came out about why they were there.

Whether it's pan-fried or baked into crispy snacks, the Indonesian soybean cake called tempeh is catching on in America as an alternative to meat. For the residents of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, it's basic, everyday fare.

A fresh tomato is 93.5 percent water. A fresh baby girl or boy is 75 percent water. A banana, 74 percent. We all start wet, and then, inevitably, dry. A 1-year-old baby carries 10 percent less water; a male adult 15 percent less. Life is a slow evaporation, with some curious exceptions.

Happy Spring Equinox, Norooz, Eid, Ostara....!

Charles Leerhson's book on the birth of the Indianapolis 500 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the race. It looks at the schemes, crashes and controversy that surrounded the inaugural running of America's most famous automobile race.

Anthropologists and archeologists long believed humans evolved in Asia. So when a set of hominid remains was discovered in Africa, it took a while for the find to stick. In Born in Africa, author Martin Meredith details the battles in the search for the origins of human life.