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Women auditioned for the Harvard musical theater group, Hasty Pudding, this weekend, which has never had a female member in the troop.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with The Wall Street Journal's Sam Dagher about how the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is helping increase the refugee flight from Syria.

When Republican candidates take the debate stage later this week, their social media teams will also be tweeting up a storm. NPR looks at social media on the trail.

Almost every state bought new computerized voting equipment after the disputed 2000 election. But the machines are coming to the end of their useful lives, and there's little momentum to replace them.

Two vehicles carrying 16 women and children were swept into a sudden rush of floodwater in southern Utah on Monday.

Some adults at risk of heart attack or stroke can indeed benefit from taking a daily aspirin, a federal panel says. And it may also lower colorectal cancer risk. But the treatment has risks, too.

His candidacy has floundered, so the Wisconsin governor is going back to what made him a hero to Republicans — taking on labor unions. But his sweeping efforts will likely run into stiff resistance.

For many years people have puzzled over why countries that get richer don't seem to get happier. Now, researchers have an answer.

Steve Inskeep talks to Stefano Bottoni, a historian at the Hungarian Academy of Science, about Hungary's past experiences of migration, and how that influences its present attitudes toward migrants.

The restart of a reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium was announced by the Korean Central News Agency, which also says North Korea is ready to use nuclear weapons "any time."