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Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay for the film Lincoln, which focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. Kushner read more than 20 books before writing about Lincoln, a man who had "an enormous capacity for grief that didn't deprive him of the ability to act."

Friday's major meteor strike is the third such incident to hit Russia in just over a century. Coincidence?

The A350 is Airbus' version of Boeing's Dreamliner, which was grounded because of fires started by the battery packs. The move makes the launch of the A350 less risky.

The "gave their lives to protect the precious children in their care; they gave all they had for the most innocent and helpless among us," President Obama said.

Jackson, the son of civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, resigned from Congress last November. Prosecutors claim he spent some $750,000 of campaign funds on personal things like a Rolex watch and fur coats.

In Chicago on Friday, President Obama explored his home city's gun violence problem at an appearance at a South Side high school — the same school NPR's David Schaper visited two years ago to report on its "safe passage" program to help students get to and from school safely. Schaper returns to see how the program and other anti-violence initiatives are working.

The fallout from Cold War bomb tests is shedding light on why the Achilles tendon heals so poorly after injuries.

NASA TV transmitted a live feed of their telescope and they were tracking the asteroid — moving at 17,450 miles per hour — without the aid of a computer, which is not an easy task.

Karen Russell's new collection of short stories has dead presidents reincarnated as horses, girls turning into silkworms, and vampires who quench their thirst for blood with lemons. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says that in Russell's world we aren't fixed in space and time but can change at any moment.

Tracy Johnson lost her wife to war, but she didn't lose her family.