Utada Hikaru was the first Japanese musician to do it all. Sing, write and be a pop star. She quickly became one of the country's most successful musicians — a position no one has managed to take from her.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her feminist novella "Herland" 100 years ago. Now a group of Herland pioneers want to make her fantasy a reality.

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is full of relics from the age of flight. But it's also home to items from the future — props from the original Star Trek TV show.

Twenty-eight-year-old Ocean Vuong captures his experience coming from Vietnam to the US in his debut poetry collection "Night Sky with Exit Wounds."

Immigrant advocates in Patchogue, on New York's Long Island, say Donald Trump's politics fuel anti-immigrant attitudes and his upcoming visit will stir painful memories of a 2008 hate crime that happened there.

Cellist Leyla McCalla explores the connections between the American South and Haiti on her new album, "A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey." The title comes from a Haitian proverb.

Their story is a work of fiction included in Mia Alvar's book, "In the Country."

The opening chord progression in Stairway to Heaven is one of the most famous in rock music. But representatives of a 1960s US band called Spirit say that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page got the idea from them. A federal judge in Los Angeles says a jury should decide.

Americans can now see the Hitler comedy that's been such a hit in Germany. Its director says now is an OK time for Germans to laugh at Hitler. They just have to laugh at the right thing.

Old world maps and atlases are chock full of history, uncharted territories and, if you look carefully, sea monsters.