Soap box derbies send motorless cars down a steep incline. At one event, contestants make their cars look like cartoon characters, subway cars, food, and giant animals (among other outlandish shapes).

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tyler Austin Harper, a former professor who writes for The Atlantic, about the allegations British academic Jason Arday faced before he was found dead Aug. 14.

Recovery is underway on Indonesia's Flores island after a 7.7 quake killed dozens. Damaged roads and 1,600 aftershocks complicate aid deliveries to residents sleeping outside.

The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers traveled to his property on Monday to join other family members who have been defending it.

A Palestinian-American remains holed up in his West Bank home for more than a week after Israeli settlers laid siege to the house and the Israeli army then turned it into a closed military area.

Paul Yoon's new novel follows a dog conscripted into an unnamed war in an unnamed country. From the very first page, Etna's voice is somber and poetic in its simplicity.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona about conditions aboard the USS Lincoln and his calls for an investigation into sailors' treatment.

New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Maria Munoz Morillo, the Spain bureau chief for Euronews, about what may have prompted thousands of migrants to cross into Spanish territory from Morocco since late July.

A recent Indian government ban on a film about historical police abuses did not silence the story, it amplified it.

Some parts of Indiana received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days, beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods.