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On Monday, on the first day of its new term, the court stunned the legal world, refusing to take any of the appeals pending on lower court rulings allowing gay marriage.

Smiley used to live in Iowa and says something about the place still pulls on her imagination. Her new book, Some Luck, begins on a family farm in 1920.

The Nebraska Medical Center is the largest of four high-level biocontainment patient care units in the U.S.

CEO Jarl Mohn announced Monday that Kinsey Wilson is leaving the network. Wilson, whose exit follows the departure of several other NPR executives, is seen as a leader on the digital front.

Democrats have the biggest-spending superPAC so far in Senate Majority PAC, but that could be overshadowed by secretly funded Republican-leaning groups Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity.

Part bummer Beach Boys, part Twin Peaks soundtrack, Mount Eerie's backing band sounds like the moment before waking, when images blur into a glassy-eyed soup.

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong largely have been peaceful, but many mainland Chinese see the demonstrators as spoiled troublemakers who are asking for too much, too soon.

Over the weekend, police found the mass graves that are thought to contain the bodies of some of the students.

There's a company town in Liberia with 80,000 residents. Ebola was first detected in March. Firestone's resourceful response has kept the virus from spreading.

Jeremy Hobson meets grill master Bob Garner and Rufus Edmisten, who explain the deep ties between food and the art of campaigning.