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The change ends an "egregious power grab," Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler says.

Questions about the number of inmates dying in custody drew attention to the standards. A former Corrections chief said existing safety standards contained trade secrets, and would not release them.

Rock critic Ken Tucker listens to new songs by My Morning Jacket's Jim James, the Danish band Iceage and George Clinton and Parliament. As each song shows, "there's an art to summoning up chaos."

"I just signed your death warrant," said Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday evening Michigan State University confirmed its president is resigning over the scandal.

Ethical concerns aside, the genetic ingredients for human traits are so complex that editing a few embryonic genes is unlikely to have much effect — or achieve the fantasy of enhancing humans.

Five decades on, the battle for justice over birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide continues in only one European country. Victims in Spain are the only ones still left without compensation.

Activists say more than 300,000 people have been detained over the course of Syria's civil war. A Syrian lawyer is trying to get the plight of detainees on the agenda at peace talks.

A chemical attack in the northern Syrian province of Idlib killed scores of civilians. Doctor Abdulhai Tennari treated some of the survivors and described what he saw.

Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Waldman president of NYU Law School's Brennan Center for Justice about his new book, which is a biography of the second amendment.

NPR's David Greene talks to Rabbi David Castiglione, who leads the congregation at Temple Adat Shalom. His synagogue is just a few miles from Chabad of Poway, which was attacked on Saturday.

The nation saw an alarming surge in homicides in 2015 — driven largely by hundreds more homicides of black men, who tend to be treated more as perpetrators of violence than as its most likely victims.

Earlier this month, students in Zoe Mullery’s creative writing class for San Quentin inmates held a reading of their work at the prison. The public was…