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Two gay men tell NPR they were kidnapped, beaten and interrogated in Chechnya before they were able to find refuge in Moscow. Human Rights Watch warns that Chechnya is conducting an "anti-gay purge."

It took hours for Somali soldiers to reclaim the pizza place from militants, who took hostages and killed many of the patrons. The attack claimed by al-Shabab opened with a bombing on a nearby hotel.

Surgery that severs the link between brain hemispheres reveals that those halves have way different views of the world. We ask a pioneering scientist what that tells us about human consciousness.

Questions remain about what happened to American college student Otto Warmbier after he was arrested and tried by North Korea. Warmbier's family and the Cincinnati hospital where he is receiving care hold press conferences on Thursday that may shed some light.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University, about obstruction of justice and the legal processes behind it when dealing with a case against a sitting president.

A new musical seeks to present a different side of the emperor, known best for fiddling while Rome burned. But some historians object to what they see as the commercialization of Roman heritage.

With two high-profile cases seemingly teetering on the brink of hung juries this week, you might think it happens quite often. But hung juries are actually relatively rare.

One Twitter user likes to post videos of frustrated travelers looking for power outlets in airports. They are disappointed to find that what looks like an outlet is just a sticker, that he put there.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a judge's Twitter handle, @JudgeCutie, is OK. A complaint had said that she demeaned the legal profession. Regardless, she hasn't tweeted since 2016.

Web giant Amazon has announced it will buy the Whole Foods grocery chain for more than $13 billion. The deal is indicative of big changes in the grocery and food business.