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One of the CIA's most famous operations was extracting six American diplomats from Iran after the U.S. embassy there was overrun in 1979. The CIA has now revealed new information about the saga.

The official memorials for Jesse Jackson began this week. The late civil rights leader is lying in repose at his Rainbow-Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago Thursday and Friday.

Threadgill's autobiography, written with Brent Hayes Edwards is called Easily Slip into Another World. His album, The Other One, is a three-movement composition written for a 12-piece ensemble.

Most of the characters in Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel don't want to believe that tyranny is taking shape before their eyes, even as power is cut off and democratic freedoms evaporate.

A press conference held Friday by President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May covered Trump's criticism of May in a published interview and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

In a new book, Ronan Farrow alleges that NBC executives tried to halt his reporting on Harvey Weinstein and reveals the identity of the woman whose complaint got Matt Lauer fired.

Did Abercrombie & Fitch violate a prohibition against religious discrimination by not hiring a woman who wears a hijab? The company contends it just has a neutral policy against wearing caps.

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a cerebral novel that traces the relationships between four characters, and shifts between themes of sex, friendship and life's dark uncertainty.

An immigration lawyer in Virginia says she has clients also waiting to leave Afghanistan, but the cumbersome process — paired with a lack of U.S. assistance in the country — is a big challenge.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with author Margaret Atwood about her new short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood.