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On Thursday, Lord Justice Leveson is expected to release his report on regulating the British press, following phone hacking and other abuses by the tabloids. The report, and Prime Minister David Cameron's response to it, will likely be controversial.

A report published last week found that Kentucky’s incarceration rates are the worst in its region, topping Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia,…

Rent prices in the Commonwealth are becoming less affordable. A new report from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition says Kentucky ranks 38th nationally in affordable housing.

that First Lady Hillary Clinton will testify before a federal grand jury in Washington on Friday. Her testimony was requested by Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Mrs. Clinton is expected to answer questions about billing records from her Little Rock law firm. A Senate committee sought those records for two years before they suddenly turned up earlier this month.

will hear today, which involves the power to prosecute government officials under federal law for committing sexual assaults while on the job. The case involves a judge in Tennessee, who was convicted of sexually assaulting women in his chambers. At issue is application of a federal law that makes it a crime to deprive someone of her Constitutional rights 'under color of state law.' The statute usually is applied to prosecute police brutality cases.

NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty spent a year exploring the emerging science of spirituality for her book, Fingerprints of God. She talks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about what she discovered while writing the book.

The disappearance of two emperor tamarins was the culmination of suspicious events at the Dallas Zoo in recent weeks. The CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums calls it a learning moment.

For four years, the National Park Service has been gathering natural sound in dozens of parks across the country. The idea is to protect visitors -- and wildlife -- from unwelcome noise.

Colorado wildlife officials believe someone released four or five pet goldfish into Teller Lake #5 a few years ago. Now, the fish number in the thousands and threaten the lake's ecosystem.

Environmentalists are celebrating a rare win of keeping a mining operation from opening up next to a National Wildlife refuge in South Georgia.