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Soccer great David Beckham was no different. He joined the queue around 2 a.m. Friday — spending 12 hours in line waiting to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II.

If you're finding yourself glued to your phone these days, scrolling the news, here's how to change your habits and get moving instead.

Advocates of "risky recess" say fewer restrictions on what elementary school kids can do when they go out to play is good for a child's development. Some schools in Kansas are trying it out.

Northeast Michigan held one of the shortest fishing seasons ever — 17 minutes. Hundreds of people gathered and raced against the clock in an effort to catch a lake sturgeon, or "dinosaur" fish.

California's largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger.

Tom Robbins has died at 92. The acclaimed author dazzled readers with colorful characters and effusive language in novels such as "Jitterbug Perfume" and "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues."

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat.

Christopher Wray's decision is not a huge surprise. It comes less than two weeks after President-elect Donald Trump said he wants a veteran of his first term in office, Kash Patel, to replace Wray.

A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three species could be threatened with extinction by the end of the century.

This week, the members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have an opportunity to cast their votes on two important referenda, including a measure that could make the Qualla Boundary the only place in North Carolina where marijuana can legally be purchased for recreational use.