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Renee Montagne talks to Fawaz Gerges, chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at the London School of Economics and author of The New Middle East, about why the two groups are at odds.

Also: President Obama will propose paid sick leave for workers; Duke University will sound the Muslim call to prayer on Fridays; and the Oscar nominations are announced today.

A Canadian man needed to go on a trip with a woman named Elizabeth Gallagher so he could use his ex-girlfriend's ticket. The two say they are just friends.

A startup in Australia is in the revenge business. For $10, it will send a person who offended you an envelope full of glitter, along with a note explaining what the person did to deserve it.

Many factors conspire to undermine diets, including human evolution, junk food formulated for addictiveness, and motivation-sapping fat stigma. One thing found to help: not blaming yourself so much.

Security for the visit is intense, because the last two pontiffs to tour the country were targeted for assassination.

It was a good day for complicated male leads and the movies that feature them, and a rough day for just about everybody else at the Oscar nominations.

Steve Inskeep's wide-ranging interview with President Obama covers recent executive actions on Cuba and immigration, race relations in the U.S., health care and extending democracy in the Middle East.

A California measure will limit the amount of full contact middle and high school football players can have during practice. The new law takes effect January 1.

There is another challenge to Obamacare. This one is not as high profile as the last one, but it has the power to gut the program. The high court may also decide to weigh in on the gay marriage issue.