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If scientists can convince people to use the app, they hope it will help them solve a cosmic mystery. This story originally aired on March 27, 2015 on All Things Considered.

While this black-and-white historical drama struggles to find a satisfying conclusion to its storytelling about the poet Dylan Thomas, it's stylishly made and intriguingly staged.

Chicago Public Schools have been mislabeling dropouts, getting them off the books and out of the graduation rate. CPS now says it will stop the practice.

In 2009, the U.S. Navy debuted a new recruiting slogan: "America's Navy: A Global Force for Good." Just about everybody hated it. Ronald Krebs, a University of Minnesota political scientist, tells NPR's Arun Rath why the slogan failed.

Belmokhtar, a leader of al-Qaida's arm in North Africa, masterminded the 2013 attack on an Algerian gas plant in which 38 foreign hostages were killed.

The president said that what started out as a natural disaster became something much worse when government didn't "look out for its own citizens."

During his U.S. visit in September, the pope is set to meet with unaccompanied minors from Central America who have formed a youth soccer team co-sponsored by New York's Catholic Charities.

Tennis fans anticipate Williams will win the U.S. Open and tie Steffi Graf's record for winning all major tennis titles in a single year. Steve Inskeep talks to sports commentator Tandaleya Wilder.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, sworn in on the day of Baltimore unrest, again confronts tension between minority communities and police. Lynch condemns recent police killings and calls on everyone — law enforcement and civilians — to come together to stop a recent spate of violence.

The international pressure on Iran's nuclear program was one of the rare examples of global cooperation in the past year. On most issues, like the war in Syria, the global community came up short.