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Courts have found a new source of funding by charging fees to defendants in the criminal justice system. NPR's Joe Shapiro tells NPR's Lynn Neary about his year-long investigation into the fees.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks to Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute about the results of the Indian election.

Among them are executives from the mine company. With the death toll at 301, this became Turkey's worst mining disaster.

Lieutenant General Hussein Ishaq is one of the few high-ranking officials to have been killed during the Syrian civil war.

Christians make up just 2 percent of Israel's population. Their numbers are rising with a steady surge of African and Filipino migrants, but a shared faith isn't bringing them together.

Thousands of others have been displaced, more than 1,000 were flown to safety on helicopters. The floods are the worst on record.

DNA from the skeleton of a 12,000-year-old teenage girl found on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula shows that today's Native Americans are descended from Siberians who spread southward across North America.

The Asian citrus psyllid is a tiny bug that spreads a devastating tree disease. Pesticides can't always control it, so California farmers have turned to a different solution: another bug.

Pennsylvania is among six states holding primary elections Tuesday. Gov. Tom Corbett is unchallenged in the GOP primary, but the general election is a different story.

The New York Times has fired Jill Abramson, making Dean Baquet the paper's first African-American executive editor. The move has sparked a debate about newsroom diversity and 'editing while female.'