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A prominent ultra-conservative figure says face veils for women are not mandatory. Now everyone is weighing in on the hottest topic in the kingdom.

Not everyone gets the chance to sit inside an exotic supercar, let alone drive one at high-speed — but you can sate that desire to do just that over...

Beth Cato's compact but potent two-book series follows a young healer in a crumbling fantasy empire who must navigate treacherous political waters while balancing questions of faith and technology.

Indoor tanning boosts the risk of skin cancer, yet half of apartments close to the University of Texas, Austin, offer free use of tanning beds. Many let minors use the machines, which is illegal.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer for The New Yorker, about the legal logic of the case against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Chicago Public Schools have been mislabeling dropouts, getting them off the books and out of the graduation rate. CPS now says it will stop the practice.

While this black-and-white historical drama struggles to find a satisfying conclusion to its storytelling about the poet Dylan Thomas, it's stylishly made and intriguingly staged.

The documentary The Wolfpack follows a family led by parents so anxious about the outside world, that for years they largely kept their children from encountering it at all.

Belmokhtar, a leader of al-Qaida's arm in North Africa, masterminded the 2013 attack on an Algerian gas plant in which 38 foreign hostages were killed.

In 2009, the U.S. Navy debuted a new recruiting slogan: "America's Navy: A Global Force for Good." Just about everybody hated it. Ronald Krebs, a University of Minnesota political scientist, tells NPR's Arun Rath why the slogan failed.