Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell saw a blip in the data from a radio telescope she helped build. The discovery of pulsars was "one of the biggest surprises in the history of astronomy."
Under the Flores settlement, immigrant minors can't be held in jail-like settings and can't be held for longer than 20 days. The government's move to circumvent that will likely end up in court.
Sen. Cory Booker was the first Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee to release documents that had been designated as "confidential" as the third day of the Kavanaugh hearings began.
Nicholas Slatten was previously found guilty in the 2007 mass shooting of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, but that conviction was overturned last year. Now his retrial has ended in a hung jury.
South Korea's Moon Jae-in and the North's Kim Jong Un will meet in Pyongyang from Sept. 18-20. The meeting, their third since April, comes as diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea has stalled.
Norm Eisen's new book, The Last Palace, tells the story of the mansion he lived in as America's ambassador to the Czech Republic and of Europe's ongoing struggle between democracy and illiberalism.
A consortium of hospital systems and three foundations is moving ahead with a nonprofit drugmaker that would produce some of the generic medicines health care facilities need the most.
NPR's Morning Edition is looking to speak with people who have been affected by the conversation around kneeling during the playing of the national anthem in the NFL.