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It doesn't sound very remarkable: Baseball team signs star. Reporter gets scoop. Reporter tweets news. Except the reporter is 13-year-old Devan Fink. He tells NPR's Scott Simon how it happened.

People protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown thwarted shoppers and blocked traffic near the police headquarters.

After the bust of the Great Recession, construction cranes once again tower over Miami. The transformation masks a difficult reality: This flashy city also remains one of the nation's poorest.

Fifty years after the desegregation of the South, an oratorio will pay tribute to an unlikely civil rights activist — a waiter named Booker Wright who spoke out about discrimination on the job.

Richard Zoglin talks about Hope's life and legacy; rock critic Ken Tucker recommends holiday listening; and Will Holshouser plays songs from his new album.

Panelists Roy Blount Jr., Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber talk about the luckiest lab mouse in scientific history.

Between 1981 and 2012, 1 million extra twins were born in the U.S. One economist says all of those twins could be hurting the economy — but another expert points out some perks of twinhood.

Captured documents show that ISIS's management structure is modern and sophisticated. NPR's Eric Westervelt talks with Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Cam Simpson about their "corporatized terror."

Gun buyers are taking advantage of killer deals, with sales doubling this weekend. The FBI's Kimberly Del Greco tells NPR's Rachel Martin that means processing three background checks per second.

Many Syrians fleeing war hope to get to northern Europe. An increasingly popular route is across the Mediterranean to Greece. Those who make it safely often face dire conditions when they arrive.