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Before there was Superman, other comics roamed the funny pages. The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an anthology of these forgotten gems, lovingly selected by famed comic artist Art Spiegelman and his wife, Francoise Mouly.

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake shook Peru Wednesday evening. Giorgio Ferrario, head of Regional Delegation in South America for the Red Cross and Red Crescent, has teams in the area surveying the damage and searching for victims.

Daniel Chester French's solemn white marble sculpture of Lincoln has presided over history since its 1922 dedication. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., looks at its creation.

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block get tips on how to pronounce the new Russian president's surname from Russian language teacher Lida Oukaderova of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

who perform in New York City's subway. The C.D. is called " Subplay" and it mixes 10 different styles, from blues to jazz to Chinese folk music. " Subplay" was produced by two young native New Yorkers who grew up listening to subway concerts.

Americans are increasingly using hand-held devices to access the Internet and for texting, sending e-mails, playing music and instant messaging. A large number of those hyperusers are young Latinos and blacks, who crave the convenience of staying connected wherever they go.

Palestinians voted Wednesday in their first parliamentary elections in a decade. The election pits the ruling Fatah Party of President Mahmoud Abbas against the militant Islamic movement Hamas, which is participating in elections for the first time.

A few years ago, director Jake Kasdan awoke in the night with an idea: His next film would be a fake music biopic. The result was Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, about a musician with an identity crisis. Kasdan and star John C. Reilly join Fresh Air to talk about working on the film, now out on DVD.

has asked the federal government to take over many of the city's financially-crippled programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and prisons...or the District will have to cut much of that one billion dollar bill. Other cities pass many costs onto their state government, D.C. doesn't have that option.

President Obama's reversal of a ban on drilling off most U.S. shores could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska. Ben Cahill, a manager at PFC Energy, offers his insight on how much oil or natural gas is actually out there.