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The Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court in Boston that had overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. The 2013 attack killed three people.

Robert Siegel talks with Charles Fracchia, founder of the San Francisco Historical Society and author of City By the Bay: A History of San Francisco 1945 to the Present, about deadly riots that took place in San Francisco on VJ Day.

For the first time since Russia's invaded Ukraine, there's a sign of progress towards peace. Negotiators for the two countries met in Istanbul Tuesday, with both sides outlining possible concessions.

Dr. Baher Butti, a psychiatrist who works in a mental health clinic in Baghdad, tells Linda Wertheimer how the ongoing violence of the conflict in Iraq affects the people he treats.

"Dwell time" is the amount of time visitors spend wandering through a museum. In most museums, that's around two hours. But in the newest Smithsonian, some visitors are there for as long as six.

Susan Stamberg is an NPR "founding mother" and the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program. But her radio debut was not so glamorous: a fake weather report on a local radio station.

Polygamist Warren Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, has been arrested near Las Vegas after a traffic stop. Jeffs had been fleeing state and federal charges that he arranged marriages between underage girls and older male members of his religious group, where Jeffs is considered a prophet.

According to the latest Harris Poll, the three biggest national issues to voters are, in order: the war, the economy, and immigration. In Arizona, the order is more like immigration, immigration and then, in third place, the war. The Arizona economy is pretty good. But most discussions of the macro economy eventually lead right back to immigration -- and it will color the election tremendously.

A car ferry has temporarily replaced a major bridge damaged during hurricane Katrina. The U.S. 90 Highway bridge spanning St. Louis Bay is slowly being rebuilt. In the meantime, residents have had to adapt to traveling a much slower pace.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz is worth more than $100 million. That's according to a financial disclosure form he filed Wednesday that's required of all Senate candidates.