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When an Indiana company learned their goods were being counterfeited in China, they did everything they could to make it stop. But pursuing an intellectual property claim in China takes a lot of work.

The 5 recipients of the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship predict how their projects will make the world a better place.

A prominent pastor and other clergy members were arrested, and several reporters were detained after protesters entered an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Forty years ago, women sportswriters had to sue to get into men's locker rooms. Today, they are still fighting for access and equal treatment.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to fimmaker Iram Parveen Bilal about her new movie, set in a Pakistani Muslim community in Chicago.

For some people, a rare genetic mutation makes dementia inescapable. Three sisters have decided to confront fate with a genetic test and have joined a research project on possible treatments.

The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.

Actors Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Rosie Perez, Rosario Dawson, Zoe Saldana and Gina Rodriguez are also directors, producers and activists.

Lynsey Addario was taken captive in 2011 while covering Libya's civil war. With a gun to her head, she says, she was thinking, "Will I ever get my cameras back?"

Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night. He was nominated Wednesday by acclamation at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Later, Bill Clinton delivered a ringing endorsement of Obama, and then vice presidential nominee Joe Biden told the crowd that the nation requires more than a good soldier in the White House.