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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jack Scarola, a lawyer who has been involved in representing seven women in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein.

A new emergency shelter opening in Texas means fewer migrant children will be held in squalid Border Patrol holding cells. But there is growing opposition to what critics are calling "child camps."

Federal assistance for children aging out of foster care expired on Sept. 30. And an Associated Press analysis found that family reunifications and adoptions dropped dramatically.

Fear can be uncomfortable for some, but for others, it's something they crave. Horror stories can be a great place to turn for some hair-raising adrenaline.

"No Children" began as a darkly funny song about divorce. Today, it's something more: a vessel for raw-throated catharsis and a safe place to be your worst self.

Character actor Rip Torn was known for playing dark roles at the beginning of his career, only to shift to more comic characters later on, winning an Emmy in the process. Torn died Tuesday at 88.

In her debut book, My Monticello, author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson asks what it means to claim a home in a place like Charlottesville, Va., — where whom the city belongs to has long been in question.

Facebook is banning some types of content that degrades, sexualizes, and otherwise harasses elected officials, celebrities, activists, and journalists.

Ridley Scott's epic, which opens in 1386 Paris, tells the story of a duel between a squire of a knight from three points of view — including that of the woman they're fighting over.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Washington Post reporter and author Dan Zak about his latest book, Almighty, about anti-nuclear weapons activism.

From a traveler's worst nightmare — beaten and robbed in a foreign city — comes a surprising story of education and discovery.

Funerals are planned this week for some of the five police officers killed in an ambush last week during a downtown Dallas protest. President Obama and former President George W. Bush are speaking at an interfaith memorial Tuesday.