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Preliminary data show an increase in highway deaths among 16- and 17-year-olds last year. In response, the government is preaching a message of "don't text and drive" and has urged students to produce their own public service ads. Officials say parental involvement may be even more important.

A year after publishing her controversial Atlantic story, "Why Women Can't Have It All," Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about her decision to leave the State Department to be at home. Her mother suggests that whether they stay home or work, women today have a much better sense of themselves than did previous generations.

For our series on the Changing Lives of Women, we're asking NPR women about their careers — and inviting you to join the conversation. We asked NPR's Audie Cornish what "having it all" means to her.

A young college grad asks an economist for advice.

New details from a Census survey shows just how much more diverse the American electorate is becoming, with political implications still to come.

The three young women who authorities say were held captive inside a home for about a decade have given police similar accounts of what suspect Ariel Castro allegedly did to trick them into coming with him.

Also: poems by New York City taxi drivers; Imelda Marcos and the power of spectacle; and USA Today is losing books staffers.

A natural gas company in Great Falls, Montana, wanted to educate consumers. So it printed 25,000 scratch-and-sniff cards to show how a gas leak would smell. Then the company tossed some of the cards. As they were crushed in a garbage truck, the gas smell filled the town.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with the relative in Dagestan last year. Russian investigators want to know whether Magomed Kartashov influenced his cousin or introduced him to others who might have encouraged Tsarnaev to turn to terrorism. Kartashov's lawyer says her client is a preacher, not an extremist.

Before the Boston Marathon bombings, Russian officials had asked the FBI to look into Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible ties to extremists. But police in Boston weren't told. Tsarnaev, who's now dead, and his brother are the main suspects in the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 250.