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Sixty-one years ago Dwight was an astronaut candidate. Sunday, along with five others, he made the trip on a rocket owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — making him the oldest person to go to space.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

The crust of this year's prize winning buttermilk pie may have been store bought. Fair officials are investigating.

Former Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker died on Thursday at age 88. Baker was one of the key players in Ronald Reagan's historic tax and spending cuts.

A new report says ranch is the salad dressing of choice in cafeterias and restaurants in the U.S. Its sales and shipments are double that of the No. 2 dressing: blue cheese.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

For each given category, name something in the category beginning with each of the letters H-O-M-E-R. For example, if the category were "Chemical Elements," you might say Helium, Oxygen, Magnesium, Einsteinium, and Radon.

Singer-songwriter Rita Hosking grew up in a house she says was haunted. She's written a song for the ghosts of the child who died and the grieving mother who followed him.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

The Richmond, Va., neighborhood of Fulton was once home to a large number of the city's middle class African-American families. But by the 1960s, it had fallen on hard times. A new album by bluesman Corey Harris pays tribute to the Southern neighborhood with a haunted past.