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David Simon's gritty new drama follows pornography's transition from back-alley pursuit to billion-dollar industry. The sex scenes are transactional, but also explicit, with equal opportunity nudity.

Young people who grew up in small towns feel a calling to come home and help revitalize those communities, including by opening craft breweries.

Issam Zahreddine reportedly died on the battlefield. The family of Marie Colvin, a celebrated U.S. war correspondent killed in Syria in 2012, has blamed him for her death.

Two new studies confirm that an outbreak of deadly Legionnaires' disease in Flint, Mich., was caused by the city's water crisis in 2014 and 2015.

Winters in London can be damp and dreary, and it gets dark early. The "Lumiere London" light festival features more than 50 outdoor installations by artists from Europe and North America.

Some NASCAR and Olympic figures spoke out for and some against NFL players who kneel during the national anthem.

A study looks at the rate of miscarriage — and of babies born with the birth defect — among a group of pregnant women in Brazil. Researchers were surprised by what they found.

Italy votes for a new parliament Sunday. The populist 5-Star Movement has set its sights on heading the next government, but in Rome, where its politicians run the city, some voters are disenchanted.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Alissa Walker, urbanism editor of Curbed, about the 80 percent rise in pedestrian deaths in Los Angeles since the mayor launched his initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities two years ago. This comes as pedestrian deaths nationwide are at a 33-year high.

A week after Myanmar's military seized power, it imposed restrictions in major cities to quell growing protests, as the coup's leader promised a new election in his first televised address.