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The Justice Department asks a federal judge to throw out the terror convictions of a group of Detroit men who Attorney General John Ashcroft had portrayed as an al Qaeda sleeper cell. The department says its own prosecutors made enough mistakes to warrant a new trial, on charges of document fraud. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

Turkey says it will allow passage for Iraqi Kurdish fighters seeking to join Syrian Kurds battling the Islamic State. This comes after the United States dropped supplies to combatants in the border town of Kobani.

Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry believes his genetically modified mosquitos will slow the spread of Zika. Now he’s calling for public support.

The personal ads of the London Review of Books feature a teeming collection of the pathetic, the downtrodden and the ever hopeful. The best of the bunch are collected in a new book, Naughty Lola.

While the recent bus shootings are an extreme example, many of Israel's Orthodox Jews are fervently against the government's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Some say they might cut off ties with the state.

A tentative deal between the union and management calls for 1.3% wage increase; workers say that's not doable in costly Southwest Florida.

Responding to political critics and child care advocates all over the state, Governor Rick Scott on Tuesday proposed significant new funding for child…

With only five days before the beginning of an Iraqi interim government and increased United Nations presence there, the United States is scrambling to find countries willing to send forces to protect U.N. representatives. President Bush asked European Union nations for troops Friday; he is expected to repeat his requests at NATO meetings this week. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

Arguing that time “is of the essence,” environmental groups Wednesday requested that a judge lift a stay of a ruling that found state lawmakers did not...

Law enforcement could use drones to monitor large crowds for safety and security but the unmanned devices couldn't be equipped to fire on crowds, under...