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"We feel that Canada has a window of opportunity here to be able to attract the best and the brightest," says one Canadian tech leader.

Born a slave, Mary Bowser went on to be one of the Union's best assets in the Civil War. On Morning Edition, NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor has the story of the woman who spied for the North -- while working in the Confederate White House.

A farmer who supported the ban had said he and his colleagues "don't want some jack wagon coming in taking a picture of them."

The Qiantang Tidal Bore, a big river wave that forms during China's Mid-Autumn Festival, barrels upstream for miles through the crowded city of Hangzhou.

Ten years after the bombing of the Boston Marathon, people gather to remember the dead and injured.

Ten years ago this week, Rebecca Black's song "Friday" was released. If you were anywhere near the Internet then, you may have distinct feelings about the song.

At age 8, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter learned that her grandmother narrowly escaped the Holocaust, leaving behind her home and parents. The memories her grandmother shared partly inspired the singer's new album, Silver and Ash.

New York University professor Neil Postman dies at the age of 72. Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, is known for his criticism of the news media. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

Men are diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment earlier than women, perhaps because of physical health issues. That's the word from a study of older people in Minnesota. But by their mid-80s, both men and women suffer the same level of loss of thinking capacity, the researchers found.

The Italian journalist had been hospitalized since Dec. 26 due to abnormal functioning of his immune system.