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The court said the law violated Libyans' freedom of speech. At the same time, the ruling proved the country's new judiciary is independent.

David Dye hangs out with the creative minds behind the TV show, including David Simon, music supervisor Blake Leyh and singer John Boutté.

Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together and to write an original poem about the news. This month, our NewsPoet is Robert Pinsky. Want to write your own poem about the day's news? You can put them in the comments below.

The idea of an "affordable manicure" was once an oxymoron. That's before Vietnamese immigrants arrived in the U.S. and cornered the market for inexpensive nail-care salons. The industry has offered a path to self-sufficiency for many Vietnamese-Americans in California and around the nation.

Latin-music critic Ernest Lechner discusses the origins of bossa nova as a fusion of American jazz and Latin samba.

There was meaning in the places President Obama and Mitt Romney chose for their dueling speeches on Thursday. The president was at a community college in heavily Democratic Cleveland. The Republican visited a small business in Cincinnati, a G.O.P. stronghold.

Making a good life as a bank robber would be hard and the yearly salary would be pretty average.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps a close eye on science in the movies — he even got a change made to Titanic. Here, he talks about truths and less-than-truths in some of the films that are taking us outside our own realm.

The youth groups that were so crucial to the overthrow of Mubarak feel "they may have lost the revolution," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Cairo.

Seven-year-old Max Page captivated TV viewers in a 2011 Volkswagen ad. On Thursday, he had surgery to replace his pulmonary valve.