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In Eve J. Chung's new novel, Ellie Chang ends up stuck in a place she's only known as enemy territory, reliant on strangers to help her get home.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Boston on a series of allegations that prison guards in Massachusetts have systematically brutalized inmates. Generally, it's hard for prison inmates to substantiate their complaints of physical abuse by guards. And watchdog groups and journalists usually can't get access to prisons or documents.

A federal judge will allow a former inmate in a restrictive prison unit designed for terrorists and other prisoners to travel to Saudi Arabia for up to a month to visit his "ailing and infirm mother," according to a court order released Friday.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.

On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the presidential debate. This is the first of three before November's elections. Mitt Romney and…

Linda talks with Rhonda Albom who survived a crash in a 1998 Ford Explorer this spring. Albom describes the harrowing experience when the tread on her tires separated while she was driving her vehicle on April 25th. Her Ford Explorer rolled three times, spun 180-degrees and took out a street sign leaving her 20-day-old baby bloody in the back seat. Linda rejoins the conversation with Rhonda Albom who, along with her 20-day old daughter, survived a crash in her 1998 Ford Explore in April. Albom tells of her surprise about what the companies knew and when. She is suing both Bridgestone/Firestone and the Ford motor Company. She has also begun distributing flyers alerting Firestone tire owners of what happened to her and to her family.

Police investigating the London transit bombings give more details about their inquiry, as they begin to release the names of some of the victims. British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke in Parliament Monday, his first address there since last week's attacks.

Over the past four decades, Benoit Rolland has made more than 1,400 bows for violins, violas and cellos.

Netflix turned heads in Hollywood by giving Greta Gerwig's Narnia an exclusive theatrical release, a move that could signal a shift in the streamer's relationship with movie theaters.

Montage: Every year the population of incarcerated women grows and grows. As a result more and more children grow up without their mothers -- and are at risk for disciplinary problems, poverty and neglect. Twenty-one year old Beverly Kennon, her mother Sue -- an inmate at a Virginia prison -- and their friend Jerry Weinberger talk about the effects of prison on the relationship between mother and daughter. (8:11) Learn more at http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2000/dec/001222.kennon.story.html.

A judge issued the sentence saying James Arthur Ray was extremely negligent. Three people died in a sweat lodge ceremony run by Ray.

With her 159th goal, Wambach replaced Mia Hamm as the top female scorer in the world. She broke the record during a friendly against South Korea.