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Twitter agreed to remove a flood of racist and anti-Semitic tweets on its service in France, following threats of a lawsuit by a Jewish student group. The move is part of a larger balancing act to comply with local hate-speech laws while avoiding over-policing its content.

The report on the Sept. 11 attack says that security was inadequate and depended heavily on local Libyan militias. It also criticized the State Department for ignoring requests for security upgrades.

According to a new state report, Kentucky high school students are better prepared for college but many aren’t taking that next step. Kentucky's higher…

David Greene talks to NPR's Elise Hu for an update on the investigation into the theft of Target customers' credit and debit card information. Up to 40 million credit card accounts and more than 1,500 stores across the country are affected.

The Obama administration is considering shifting the armed drone program to the military to mollify critics who say it lacks accountability and transparency.

The new pontiff has no real record of speaking out about sexual abuse cases, though one prominent priest under his leadership was convicted in 2009 in Buenos Aires.

Russia is pledging that the 2014 games will be free of discrimination despite its anti-gay measures. Frank Deford isn't buying it and says Olympic officials need to be accountable.

Lawyers with Council For Better Education say a new tax-credit scholarship program, created by the passage of HB 563 earlier this year, is not legal under the state’s constitution.

We remember writer BRUCE CHATWIN, one of the most influential travel writers of his generation. CHATWIN died five years ago from a rare bone marrow disease he contracted while in China. He was 48 years old. CHATWIN spent over 20 years exploring the people and geography of the world. His 1978 travel book "In Patagonia" chronicled his solitary journey through South America. His last novel Utz was set in the art world. (RE-BROADCAST of show first aired 9/10/87)Writer TRACY JOHNSTON. JOHNSTON is the author of "Shooting the Boh: a Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo" (Vintage Books), which isd now inm its eighth printing. The book is not only an account of her adventure going down the river dealing with leeches, waterfalls, foot rot, and moldy clothes, but about her own realization that the hot flashes she was feeling in the middle of the night weren't the steamy jungle but the onset of menopause. Amy Tan described JOHNSTON as being "as hilariously observant of her own tics and wrinkles as she is of . (RE-BROADCAST of show first aired 1/

The Taliban of today has a sophisticated social media presence. It has harnessed online platforms as a tool of propaganda and is now using it as a way to govern.