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March was another month of solid hiring for U.S. employers with payrolls increasing by 215,000. The unemployment rate actually ticked up a notch last month, but that was because all the hiring drew people off of the sidelines and back into the workforce. When that happens the unemployment rate can go up because there are more people looking for work.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the latest in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary races.

In 1966, Texas Western became the first team with an all-black starting five to win the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Dave Lattin played center, and his grandson plays Saturday for Oklahoma.

President Obama took questions from reporters at the end of his last nuclear security summit Friday, including his reaction to controversial comments by Donald Trump about nuclear weapons.

It wasn't what Sanders said that got young people's attention — it was what he had on his head.

LA detectives have determined that a knife turned in recently as possible evidence was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

Writer Augusten Burroughs has grown up on the page, in a series of unvarnished (and sometimes unhinged) memoirs. His latest is the story of a man trying to stay sober, stay in love and not blow it.

Tens of thousands of religious protesters descended on Islamabad and demanded the government keep strict blasphemy laws in place. They left only after they said the government provided assurances.

There has been a lively debate in political and media circles about the extent to which Donald Trump's rise has been fueled by news media.

At the end of the nuclear security summit he hosted, President Obama slammed Donald Trump for Trump's recent comments about nuclear weapons.