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The nation was riveted by a pair of llamas that broke free in Sun City, Ariz. The llamas ran through parking lots and boulevards, until the men with lassos were called.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can.

This weekend, Sunita Williams is set to become one of the few women to ever walk in space. That's because NASA's million-dollar spacesuits only come in medium, large, and most recently, extra-large.

Falling in love with your handsome pen pal, moving overseas to marry him, then finding out he's part of a terrorist organization: That's the Bunjevac family story, told in a new graphic memoir.

Just before her 30th birthday, Ellen Forney received a diagnosis that finally explained her super-charged highs and debilitating lows: bipolar disorder. In Marbles, a new graphic memoir, Forney recalls both the pain and the humor of her path to stability.

Nate Klug is a poet and candidate for ordination in the United Church of Christ. "Poetry is a form where the language is under so much pressure," he says, "and that can really bring about wonderful surprises and insights in our ways of talking about God or thinking about our faith."

John Banville (who writes crime fiction under the pen name Benjamin Black) describes the exploits of his oddball sleuth named Quirke. His plots are set in Dublin, a city that lends itself to noir fiction. "I love this place in a strange, embittered kind of way," Black says.

After Hector Black's daughter was murdered seven years ago, all he could think about was revenge. But after learning about the killer's troubled background, Black asked authorities to spare his life.

You might not know Marni Nixon's name, but you have most probably heard her. She dubbed the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady — three of Hollywood's biggest movie musicals. Her new memoir, I Could Have Sung All Night, is being published this week.

Henry Morgenthau III had a long and eventful life even before he started writing poetry in his 90s. Now, at age 100, he's promoting his first poetry collection, called A Sunday in Purgatory.

The award-winning songwriter speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the value of melody, and writing a song about rain for a movie scene that had none.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has reversed course, saying the government will not buy up banks' troubled assets. Instead, he has said, the administration will use part of the bailout money to buy stock in banks in an attempt to encourage them to lend.

States are looking for creative ways to help parents through addiction while keeping kids in familiar living situations. But such rehab programs require resources that states may not prioritize.

Authorities broke down camps that had arisen near a refugee center, citing unhealthy conditions and resettling residents. Meanwhile, the U.N. warns of tragedy unfolding in the Mediterranean.

Joe Valiente, director of emergency management in Jefferson Parish, La., says the damage caused by the hurricane is "incredible," with extensive impact on the electrical grids in the area.

Palestinians mark 75 years since what they call the Nakba, or "catastrophe," when Palestinians were displaced during Israel's founding war.

Jackie and Scott Miller, a mother and son, first came to StoryCorps in 2008, and Jackie revealed a secret. Jackie is now 88, and her health is declining. They came back for one more conversation.

Five years after an attempted coup shook Turkey and created a sweeping crack down against the president's perceived enemies, journalists look at the state of free speech.

As speculation abounds over Attorney General Jeff Session's future, a crowded field of contenders are jockeying for position ahead of the Aug. 15 GOP primary in Alabama to choose his successor.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a slim liberal majority for the first time in 15 years and there is procedural infighting that risks tarnishing the court's reputation.

Parts of southern Louisiana could see isolated rain totals of 20 inches through Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. Hundreds of thousands of utility accounts are now without power in Texas.

"We're used to treating hot spells as a chance to go play in the sun," said a top government scientist. "Our lifestyles and our infrastructure are not adapted to what is coming."

The word "sociopath" often brings to mind criminals, killers, and people who are cruel and heartless. But writer and diagnosed sociopath M.E. Thomas wants to challenge that conventional wisdom. She says sociopaths are not inherently evil, and can be incredibly productive to society.

When Hostess Brands declared bankruptcy, Jennifer Steinhauer started preparing for the snack food apocalypse. Among the foods she tackled was a pink treat she had no respect for — the Sno Ball.

Before her death in 2014, author Denise Inge took a spiritual journey to bone houses throughout Europe. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the resulting book, The Tour of Bones, is "strange and chaotic."