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Reality seems pretty stubborn, pretty fixed — and pretty much independent of whatever is going on in your head. But is it, really? Astrophysicist Adam Frank explores the scientific debate.

The selection of graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang as the latest National Ambassador for Young People's Literature signals an important shift in the effort to reunite kids and comics.

If history is any guide, the president's efforts to curb gun violence may have the unintended effect of boosting gun sales.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adam Gopnik, who wrote the foreword to Open Letter, a manifesto by Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo who was killed when gunmen attacked the paper's offices.

Cellphone video showed Michael Slager shooting an unarmed black man in the back last year in North Charleston, S.C. He was charged with murder and initially denied bail. Now he's out on $500,000 bond.

Chipotle's rise was fueled in part by its image as a healthy, ethical choice. After foodborne illnesses sickened hundreds, analysts say it won't be easy for the chain to win back customers' trust.

Zsigmond, who died Friday, won an Oscar for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also shot The Deerhunter, Deliverance and Heaven's Gate, among other films. Originally broadcast in 1990.

Monique Pressley is called "masterful" in her public message. She hits the spotlight of the Bill Cosby case after a career as a defense attorney, prosecutor and religion-based broadcaster.

Five years ago Friday, a gunman opened fire in a parking lot in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and wounding others — including Mary Reed, who had been protecting her daughter. This is their story.

New guidance against religious profiling by police officers in New York City were announced as part of the settlement. Renee Montagne talks to Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union.