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Tens of thousands of anti-American protesters have taken to the streets again. In Pakistan. There are reports of at least six deaths.

The Spanish woman who messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus, now wants a piece of the action from the $2,600 her church has collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork. A court battle is expected.

Canadian performing artist Fan Yang set a Guinness record for number of people enclosed in a soap bubble. Yang burst the previous record by getting 181 people — arms at their sides — to resist the urge to poke the bubble as it slowly rose around them.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is comparing an uprising against Taliban rule in Andar, Afghanistan, to the "Anbar Awakening" in Iraq that helped turn the tide against al-Qaida in that nation.

Host Michel Martin and editor Ammad Omar crack open the mailbox for listener reaction. This week, they catch up with guest Christine Ha, the legally blind champion of the TV show MasterChef. They sift through a pile of tweets, emails, and Facebook messages about a breastfeeding professor.

The Coast Guard has rescued two men who were aboard an airplane that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.Theodore Wright and Raymond Fosdick, both of Baytown,…

When it comes to creating passwords, many of us are amazingly unimaginative. How about you? Or do you have some great tips for how to create unbreakable codes?

Unemployment ticked down in Louisiana in August as some people left the labor force.The state's jobless rate fell to 7.4 percent, down from 7.6 percent in…

Each year, Americans waste 33 million tons of food. Dana Gunders, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and author Jonathan Bloom discuss the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and what can be done to fight the growing problem.

Republican dreams of taking control of the U.S. Senate in November have been declared all but dead over the past several days by prognosticators pointing to trouble facing the party in unexpected places. But a noted analyst of Senate races says much could change between now and Election Day.