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A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced in Iraq — and made a speech demanding U.S. troops leave the country — American forces raid a building in Sadr City.

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have presented separate plans meant to change the course of the war in Iraq. Both proposals set timetables for withdrawing U.S. forces.

The prosecution appears close to resting its case in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney.

Megha Majumdar's new novel is set during the aftermath of a terror attack in India, and examines the intersecting lives of three people affected by the events and the government's response.

In a North Carolina school district newly controlled by Republicans, it took just one parent's complaint to remove a book from the curriculum.

The Justice Department has charged a former senior official at the National Security Agency with lying, obstruction of justice and retention of classified information. The indictment alleges that Thomas Drake was the unnamed source for a series of newspaper articles about the NSA's cyber security operations and that he provided copies of classified documents to a reporter. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Robert Siegel about the case.

Two men were killed as they intervened to help women targeted by a man delivering an anti-Muslim rant. Molly Solomon of Oregon Public Broadcasting tells us the status of the investigation.

With the human toll expected to be much higher than the 17 confirmed dead, the fire in a London high-rise apartment building is compounding the government's political woes.

According to a Military Times investigative report, a Texas Guardsmen spied on migrants via WhatsApp and mishandled secret docs. A reporter from the outlet explains why

Nephtalí De León was the sixth poet to hold the two-year appointment. He leaves after four months.