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Andy Raymond demonstrates the Armatix iP1, a .22-caliber smart gun that has a safety interlock, at Engage Armaments in Rockville, Md., last year.

Will Obama's Action Create A Market For 'Smart' Guns?

Supporters of "smart" gun technology hope that President Obama's initiative will prompt federal agencies to put in big purchase orders, unleashing the new market. Will it make us safer?

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (left) greets supporters at King's Christian Bookstore Monday in Boone, Iowa, as part of a six-day bus tour ahead of the state's caucuses.

In Tight Iowa Race, Ted Cruz Is Counting On Evangelical Voters

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is barnstorming across Iowa, where his appeal to evangelical voters is making him a threat to GOP front-runner Donald Trump in the first caucus state.

'The Hateful Eight's' Walton Goggins: On Being a Southerner in Hollywood

When Walton Goggins moved to Los Angeles to try acting, he was advised to lose his Southern accent. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Goggins about his new role as a Confederate in The Hateful Eight.

Claudia Tran, 21, was born and raised in Slovakia to Vietnamese immigrants. "People here are still really surprised if I speak Slovak with them," she says. "Because the assumption is, you don't look Slovak, you aren't Slovak."

Slovakia's Migrants Keep A Low Profile In A Country Wary Of Outsiders

Slovakia has never been particularly welcoming to migrants and it resisted the most recent influx to Europe. Those who came a generation ago say they are still often seen as outsiders.

Wheaton College Begins Process Of Terminating Professor

Officials of a suburban Chicago Christian college has begun efforts to fire a political science professor who was placed on leave after saying Christians…

"As president I will not allow the foxes to be guarding the hen house at the Fed," Bernie Sanders said of the practice of allowing the CEOs of major banks to serve on the boards of the New York Fed. It was one of several scathing criticisms of Wall Street that he delivered Tuesday.

Visiting New York City, Bernie Sanders Attacks Clinton, 'Greed' Of Wall Street

"Will the folks on Wall Street like me? No. Will they begin to play by the rules if I am president? You better believe it," Sanders said Tuesday.

GOP Candidates Address Forum On Addiction In New Hampshire

Whatever happens in the state with the first primary becomes big news in presidential elections. New Hampshire has an addiction epidemic. The issue is now being discussed on the campaign trial.

A daguerreotype of Jack-Be-Little Squash, an heirloom variety from plant conservationist Amy Goldman's farm in New York's Hudson Valley.

In 'Heirloom Harvest,' Old-School Portraits Of Vegetable Treasures

A leading expert of the daguerreotype started photographing a gardener's collection of heirloom vegetables 15 years ago. They've published a book to honor the unusual varieties in the collection.

Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez

Once an outspoken avant garde critic of the establishment, Boulez went on to serve as the conductor of both the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Originally broadcast in 2005.

Castle Romeo was an American hydrogen bomb test in March 1954 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was 11 megatons, or roughly 1,000 times more powerful than North Korea's test on Wednesday. North Korea says it was a hydrogen bomb test, though the White House says it doubts the claim.

The U.S. Isn't Buying North Korea's Claim Of An H-Bomb Test

North Korea says it detonated a powerful hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. But the White House says it doesn't believe the claim.

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