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If poverty means not having money, wouldn't giving people cash fix the issue? Host Michel Martin speaks with Mauricio Lim Miller, founder of the Family Independence Initiative, and science writer Moises Velasquez-Manoff, about why it's more complicated than that.

In 1994, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti gave a sold-out concert at LA's Dodger Stadium. It still echoes today in both the music business and public TV.

Large-scale pageantry opened the Sochi Olympics on Friday, in a symbolically rich opening ceremony that was marred by an early and highly visible mistake — one of five massive Olympic rings failed to fully appear.

Conserving water in California, as the state endures its fourth year of drought, is mandatory. But just who has to save how much can vary.

Watch the striking, animated video for David Gilmour's "The Girl in the Yellow Dress," from his new album Rattle That Lock. The song features lyrics by Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson.

The podcast is a reinvestigation of the 1999 murder of Maryland high school student Hae Min Lee. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed is serving a life sentence but has always maintained his innocence.

Connecticut has built a safety net that will send a child-behavior expert to any daycare or pre-K in the state that's having trouble with a disruptive child.

From the birthplace of Stax and Sun Records, and the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the pair of rapper-producers snatched soul music and put it to work for a new generation.

As summer turns to fall, finding new ways to use up abundant apples is a great way to mark the arrival of autumn. And for one food writer, there's one apple in particular that spells the end of summer: Gravenstein apples, which are grown in her native Sebastopol, Calif.

Justice Stephen Breyer will retire, giving Biden a Supreme Court pick. How is Russia responding to diplomatic moves to lower tensions with Ukraine? The U.S. reports latest economic growth figures.