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About 5 percent of Israel's population is vegan. In a nation where military service is compulsory for most people, that's prompting the military to offer animal-free diets and clothing to soldiers.

"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," Howe says.

The case created an uproar after photos emerged showing a member of U.Va.'s Honor Committee bleeding as he lay on the sidewalk with a uniformed Alcoholic Beverage Control agent crouching over him.

They came from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, seeking asylum in Israel. Many of them were raped and tortured. They didn't want to talk about it — until they came to a basket-making program.

In Cleveland, residents, protesters and pastors are expressing disappointment following a judge's verdict Saturday acquitting a police officer in the 2012 fatal shooting of two black men.

Iowa voters will start the process of deciding who the next president will be. But they'll do it in a way that can mystify outsiders — meeting in schools, gymnasiums and even neighbors' living rooms.

Author Mark Bowden says the capture of Hue, Vietnam, was part of a wave of well-planned Communist attacks that helped turn U.S. public opinion against the war. Originally broadcast June 12, 2017.

Today's lingo seems creative, but slang in 19th century America was every bit as colorful.

An explosion of music festivals catering to niche interests includes any genre you can think of, gourmet food, craft beer, environmental sustainability, extreme luxury and grueling physical exertion.

When it comes to protecting the environment and issues like worker well-being and women's rights, 10 of the world's biggest food producers get failing grades from Oxfam, an activist group for the poor.

You're driving down the street, and there on the corner, something familiar: a person waving a giant advertisement. Wait, that's not a real person! In cities across the country, sign-waving mannequins are helping to advertise things like cash for gold, furniture and apartments.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews It Follows, a film that he says works some interesting changes on the horror genre.