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Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, is the archvillain of Easter week (though he has his defenders). He also has an intriguing range of food and drink named after him — from cake to bread to beer.

Eels sometimes swim thousands of miles from their birthplace in the Atlantic to rivers and lakes where they live. Researchers say the creatures might use the Earth's magnetic field to find their way.

That bopping beat, that thick and wobbly synth bass, those voices — TLC is back.

Gustavo Falcon, his brother and their associates were indicted in 1991 for smuggling 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. His partners were caught and convicted, but Falcon roamed free — until Wednesday.

United Airlines has a PR disaster on its hands after a passenger was violently removed from a flight to make room for crew. For other airlines, it's a PR opportunity.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, about the upcoming referendum for constitutional changes in Turkey.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Atul Khare, the United Nations under-secretary general for field support, about the AP report that found UN peacekeepers sexually abused children in Haiti.

Recently, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that existing civil rights law bars discrimination based on sexual orientation. But other appeals courts have ruled that existing federal law does not extend to sexual orientation. LGBT activists cheered the most recent decision, but it will likely wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

On the political spectrum of most conservative to most liberal congressional districts, New Jersey's 7th congressional district is the political median of America. Which is why its Republican Rep. Leonard Lance, a self-proclaimed moderate, is taking heat from all sides. NPR takes a look at how much interest his constituents have in centrist attitudes in the Trump era.

When fines like parking tickets stack up, it's difficult for some to pay their way out. So San Francisco created the Financial Justice Project to study the way fines affect the poor.