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Every year thousands of people make a pilgrimage down the state highway toward the Catholic shrine in Chimayo, N.M. They gather there to pray for forgiveness and healing.

Politics are frequently compared to combat, and attacks on candidates are routine tactics in election battles. But host Michel Martin wonders about the scars those attacks leave behind, both on the candidates and on our political system.

Maybe we should treat ranting like smoking, by creating special areas where people can rage together.

At 13, Sophie Nelisse is already making big career decisions. She started training in gymnastics at 3 and had her eyes set on the 2016 Olympics. She put those dreams aside when she landed the lead role in The Book Thief. She tells host Arun Rath, "It was a hard choice, but I chose acting."

With a 44-second victory, Oracle Team USA faced down Emirates Team New Zealand at the finals Wednesday to hold onto the America's Cup. Wednesday's race capped off an America's Cup competition that included capsizing and shattered masts, and an Oracle Team USA that seemed sure to lose.

As he campaigns through Southern states in advance of Super Tuesday, Donald Trump has downplayed the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke.

#AskTheGays was able to create something of a safe space online in a week where it might have been particularly hard to find those spaces in the real world or our political discourse.

When the gloomy octopus of Australia turns dark and towers threateningly over his neighbor, he's likely signaling aggression, scientists now say. Neighbors get the message — they turn pale and flee.

Steve Inskeep talks to Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N.'s relief agency, about the situation at Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp. Militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State control the area.

A debate over whether prison inmates should be allowed to vote is rippling through the 2020 Democratic primary field. The issue is also dividing criminal justice activists.