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Syrian teenager Omar al-Kurdi had to forfeit his schooling and childhood to become his refugee family's breadwinner. Journalist Farnaz Fassihi tells host Michel Martin more about her profile of the teenager's life in Beirut, Lebanon.

Connie Binsfeld, who serves for eight years as Michigan's Lieutenant Governor has died. Binsfeld served in the Michigan House and Senate before serving…

The high court declined the state's request to review a lower court ruling that struck down its ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. That effectively blocks the law permanently, since the appeals court found it unconstitutional.

As we approach the third anniversary of the demonstrations in Egypt, Fresh Air critic John Powers reviews a documentary that captures the story of Cairo's Tahrir Square. He says the film "is less a final reckoning than an exciting bulletin from the front lines of an unfinished revolution."

Organizers of the Winter Games are preparing to serve up quite a bit of the hearty, deep-red Russian soup. Which is kind of ironic, says Russian food writer Anya von Bremzen, since borscht carries with it complicated political implications. And not all borschts are created equal, she warns.

Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde, the leader of more than a dozen self-defense groups in Mexico, remains hospitalized after a plane crash. While the crash has been ruled an accident, federal police have been stationed outside the Mexico City hospital where he's recuperating. The doctor heads up the armed citizen groups that are taking on organized crime and the feared Knights Templar drug cartel.

In Little Rock, Ark., a federal judge approved a settlement that brings an end to a landmark school desegregation case. The case dates back to 1957, when nine black students integrated Central High School, which up until that point was all-white. But after 60 years of desegregation efforts, are the classes really integrated?

Last week, about 180 twenty and thirty-somethings met at Wings Stadium for one huge game of dodge ball. This is the second year for the Kalamazoo Sport &…

Even retailers that invest heavily in sophisticated security systems are seeing new vulnerabilities from rogue hackers who are buying software tools on the black market.

The ENIAC project, launched shortly after World War II, is seen as a key moment in the beginning of the computer age. Lost in the history of the ENIAC is…