A U.S. jury awarded $42 million in damages to detainees mistreated while being held in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq two decades ago.

A federal judge has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

Companies in China are fueling a "silver economy" by adapting to serve hundreds of millions of people over the age of 60.

Utility companies have been sued to bankruptcy over downed power lines that caused deadly wildfires in Hawaii and California.

Human rights groups say there have been at least 1,000 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the past year. Hundreds have been driven from their homes.

Manchester is where the Industrial Revolution was born. It's also where Marx & Engels lived & coined the term 'proletariat.' NPR looks at the origins of an idea every politician has sought to co-opt.