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"The right whales are at a point where more are dying than are being born," biologist Clay George says. "That's just not sustainable long-term."

The Bohras, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, practice cutting as a clandestine ritual. Now, the arrest of a Bohra doctor in Detroit for performing FGM has inspired a frank discussion in Pakistan.

At a conference in Kabul , Ashraf Ghani offered the insurgent group a variety of incentives to come to the negotiating table — including passports, a political office and the release of prisoners.

In the face of non-stop protests, the government has released thousands of political prisoners. The prime minister has resigned. And, for the second time in less than two years, the government has declared a state of emergency.

A whistleblower alleges she was demoted for refusing to exceed the legal $5,000 limit on new decor. The allegations come as the housing agency's budget could be slashed by billions.

For the last six months, a red-tailed hawk has made its home in the ramparts of the Washington National Cathedral. And now, it officially has a name: Millennium Falcon.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl about the narrow point of intersection between the worlds of mental illness and gun violence. He says there's not much more the mental health field can do to prevent potential mass shooters, since the best predictive factors fall out of the scope of the medical field.

More than two-thirds of unionized workers at Disneyland in California tell surveyors that they are food insecure at the place advertised as the "happiest place on earth."

Ahead of Friday's funeral in North Carolina, the evangelist is lying in honor at the Capitol rotunda through Thursday; it is just the fourth time a private citizen has been recognized in that way.

At the time, New Zealand officials suggested to journalists that the bang of the teenager's gun was a sign falling over or firecrackers going off.