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Two upper-class sisters are writing a book updating Jane Austen's stories, and setting them in contemporary Pakistan. The sisters face many of the same challenges as women in England's regency period.

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, December 7th: University of Akron will hike and freeze tuition; Kent State journalism student dies; Feds...

Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, until recently chief medical officer for Medicaid, quit his job to more directly fight the stigma of addiction — a stigma that made his beloved uncle afraid to ask for help.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short about the president's meeting on immigration policy and a judge's ruling halting the end of DACA temporarily.

With California Rep. Darrell Issa deciding to step down, a total of 31 Republicans in Congress have said they won't run. Steve Inskeep talks to Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union.

There were no schools for the deaf near her village in India. And she had to stand up to the bias against deafness — and the use of sign language.

From a teenager's encounter to today's revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose and so many more,a writer wrestles with the ways women are taught to doubt their own experiences.

An orphanage in the Iraqi city of Mosul is caring for confused and unidentified children left in the wake of ISIS.

Man Kaur of India has won 17 gold medals in her age category. And now she's trying her hand at javelin.

At least 15 people have died and 115,000 acres of land and property have been scorched by wildfires that have obliterated neighborhoods, shops and woodlands since Sunday.