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In the week since the Union County sheriff’s office charged a Monroe couple with handcuffing an 11-year-old boy by the ankle to their front porch, we know…

The Church of England voted overwhelmingly Monday to allow women to serve as bishops. The first woman could be ordained as early as the end of this year.

NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji spent time with Cuban trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval, just days before he accepted his adopted country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Last spring we reported on a serious problem in hospitals – shortages of critical drugs, including chemotherapy treatments, anesthetics and even basic…

Puzzle guru Will Hines leads this final round, in which every correct answer is a word, phrase or proper noun that contains the letters "a-p-p" in order.

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a change to allow travelers to make phone calls as they fly on jetliners in the U.S. The agency's new chairman, Tom Wheeler, calls the current ban on the use of cellphones during flights "outdated and restrictive."

The Girl Who Was on Fire is back in a darker tour through Suzanne Collins' dystopia, this one directed by Francis Lawrence ( I Am Legend). Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Donald Sutherland star.

The Federal Election Commission has rejected a bid by conservatives to weaken the campaign-finance disclosure law. A Tea Party group had asked for a precedent-changing decision to keep its donor lists secret. It said members are being targeted for harassment and intimidation.

Also: A newly published essay by C.S. Lewis; exploring Middle-Earth; Salman Rushdie on the Internet.

Also: International talks in Geneva over Iran's nuclear program may extend into the weekend; Utah's attorney general quits to fight corruption allegations; a supermarket collapses in Latvia, killing several people; and New Jersey tests online gambling and a few glitches are reported.

Devdutt Pattanaik takes a look at the myths of India and of the West, and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven lead us to misunderstand one another.

Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.

When two young Mormon missionaries knocked on performer Julia Sweeney's door one day, it put Sweeney on a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs.

On this week's show, we bleep-ily tackle the topic of profanity in pop culture, and we chat about stories in movies and television that are rendered obsolete — or are they? — when the world changes around them. As always, we close with what's making us happy this week.

The Union County Department of Social Services used a “bogus” interpretation of state law in dismissing a 2012 sheriff’s complaint against a top DSS…

Retailers have used various techniques to analyze in-store buying behavior, such as surveys, video surveillance, and buyer reward programs. Some stores have been tapping into the technology in smartphones to track shoppers' actions. New York Times reporter Quentin Hardy discusses how they're doing this and what information they can gather.

In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reported an association between daily nut consumption and a reduction in the risk of dying from cancer, heart disease, and other major chronic diseases. Lead author Charles Fuchs discusses these findings.

If you want to raise money, charge a sales tax. If you want people to smoke less, tax producers. Traditional economics says this shouldn't make a difference, but it does.

When you look out the airplane window as you fly into Charlotte, the trees thin, the Uptown skyline rises into view, and the buildings of West Charlotte…