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The latest accomplishment for gene therapy involves mice with inherited deafness. Meanwhile, the drugmaker Novartis is conducting the first trial of gene therapy for people with hearing loss.

Social scientists see long-term benefits to new dads spending a few months caring for a baby. But these studies won't nudge fathers to take leave if they still see a work culture that frowns on it.

NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro dons a costume and participates in a Carnival parade in Brazil.

Steve Inskeep talks to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about the redesign of the $10 bill. Lew says there's two whole sides to a bill — and there is a lot of space to tell a lot of stories.

This is the second botched execution in a row for the state. Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack last year after a phlebotomist misplaced an IV line.

The current House GOP leader said he was withdrawing because, for Republicans to unite, "we probably need a fresh face." Now, leadership elections have been postponed.

The activist, who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was a key figure in organizing sit-ins and freedom rides and the 1963 March on Washington.

A new study finds that one in four of the sex workers in Tijuana and Juarez started as minors. A safe house is helping some of them find a new life.

Officials said there were "credible reports" that one team intentionally lost a game to prevent another team from advancing. To settle the matter, those teams faced each other in a playoff.

As it happens every few years, the U.S. tradition of jus soliis back in the spotlight. Some Republican presidential candidates want to end the practice, which would take a constitutional amendment.