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Terrorist attacks and the ongoing battle with the Islamic State cast a shadow over some of the accomplishments the president tried to highlight in his year-end news conference on Friday.

The author of Station Eleven weaves together stories of a hotel worker and an ultra-wealthy con man in a novel that captures how precarious life is — in a way that feels particularly resonant now.

Angry Mumbai residents held a big demonstration today to express indignation over the Indian government's failure to thwart the Mumbai terror attacks.

Joe Trippi talks about how new technologies are being used in political campaigns, from YouTube to Google to MySpace.com. He tells Renee Montagne that the landscape has changed markedly in the last five years. Trippi was Howard Dean's presidential campaign manager.

Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow on Friday. NPR's Scott Simon asks Russia expert Nina Khrushcheva how the opposition leader's legacy might continue to influence Russian politics.

Residents in New Jersey for weeks have reported seeing mysterious drones in the skies. Officials still have few concrete explanations.

Kiah Duggins, 30, graduated from East High and Wichita State University before going on to earn her law degree from Harvard Law School.

Monica Witt has been indicted after allegedly providing classified Pentagon information to Tehran. She defected almost six years ago, the Justice Department says.

Humans are traveling farther into space than ever before. We look at the physics of launch – how to send something up and how it can come crashing back down.

A Tweet might have cost an early favorite in the NFL draft millions of dollars in lost income, while an Instagram post could provoke an investigation of his school.