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Eileen Kushner strove — and strove, and strove — to overcome a learning disability diagnosed later in her life. But Kushner, who was inspired by Edison, found a crucible in her job at McDonald's.

Barbie commercials have come a long way since the 1950s, when one ad encouraged girls to want to get married. Today's commercials market the doll to boys and show girls dreaming about their careers.

Residents and visitors in Paris are mourning the victims of Friday's bomb and gun attacks that killed 129, and injured hundreds more. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with reporter Lauren Frayer.

While scores lie in hospitals with wounds received in the Paris terror attacks, the relatives of other victims look for the bodies of loved ones in a morgue on the River Seine.

HBO's sci-fi drama Westworld starts its third season tonight. This season streamlines the story and focuses on the quest by an artificial person to destroy human civilization in the future.

Stefan Caruba, the senior nurse practitioner at the Night Ministry in Chicago,, talks about how the coronavirus outbreak has changed his organization's work with the homeless.

Facebook activated a feature to help people check on friends' safety in Paris shortly after the attacks. NPR's Rachel Martin looks at how and when this policy is enacted.

Ted Cruz is in a heated battle for first place in the Iowa GOP caucuses. Though he's falling behind in New Hampshire, that didn't stop him from embarking on a bus tour there this week in hopes of beating expectations.

There's only one health department in Alabama where people can go to be tested for tuberculosis. That's in Perry County, where an outbreak claimed three lives in 2015. For every 100,000 people there, 253 would be infected; normally in Alabama it's only 2.5. Now, health officials are trying to get handle on the disease. But it hasn't been easy, so officials there decided to take a new approach.

What are the sanctions against Iran that have been lifted? Which ones are still in place? NPR's Ari Shapiro gets the details from Richard Nephew, lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating.