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Mike Pesca of Slate's "The Gist" updates NPR's Linda Wertheimer on March Madness.

A group of imams and religious scholars from the U.K. visited Iraq to learn more about ISIS. NPR's Linda Wertheimer asks Sheik Mohammad Umar about what he plans to do with the knowledge.

Religious services in Belgium today are remembering the dead and injured from Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.

In his Harper's piece, Dan Baum digs into the country's war on drugs. He says we have a long history of instating drug laws to demonize certain minority groups, but "Nixon brought it to a high art."

If you remember a world without Netflix, spare a thought for the North Carolina man who found himself in handcuffs for not returning a VHS tape he rented long ago — "Freddie Got Fingered."

Hundreds more were injured in the blast that struck a public park in Lahore, eastern Pakistan. Reuters reports that the casualties included many women and children.

The author — who wrote more than three dozen books, including the novels Dalva and True North and many collections of poetry — found freedom in the outdoors. He died Saturday in Patagonia, Ariz.

The Supreme Court nominee has a long list of past opinions, but the court he has sat on for nearly two decades has rarely weighed in on controversial issues.

The art market is booming in Santa Fe, N.M., but the highbrow scene leaves some artists feeling out of place. So, one collective made a space of their own — with a big boost from the fantasy author.

More Americans are looking for a second home — on wheels. After crashing hard in the recession, RV sales have rebounded and are on track to approach record levels this year.