Viewers of Kara Walker's A Subtlety described the sculpture as "beautiful" and "the American sphinx." Another said, "She is so exposed and she's so vulnerable, but at the same time she has some grace and majesticness that is completely unapproachable." Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Andrew Burton/Getty Images Fine Art Artist Kara Walker Draws Us Into Bitter History With Something Sweet Walker's latest project is a series of sugar sculptures housed in a former sugar refinery. From far away the works look charming, but up close they tell the ugly story of the Caribbean slave trade. Listen Loading… 8:10 Download Playlist
Legal experts say it's too soon to know the impact of a European court ruling that will require Google to remove some links upon request. hide caption itoggle caption Virginia Mayo/AP All Tech Considered European Ruling On Removing Google Links May Leave A Mess Europeans now have the right to ask that Internet search results about them be removed. But legal experts say each of the EU's 28 countries could interpret the decision differently. Listen Loading… 4:46 Download Playlist
Narendra Modi was ostracized by the United States for more than a decade. As it became increasingly clear in recent months that he was likely to become India's next leader, the U.S. and European countries began to reach out to him. hide caption itoggle caption Sam Panthaky /AFP/Getty Images Parallels - World News Why The U.S. Shunned The Man Who Will Now Lead India The U.S. and other Western governments ostracized Narendra Modi for the past decade. They are now willing to deal with him, but it's not clear how warm those relations might be.
In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, diver Susan Bird, working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, brushes the Naia skull found at the site. Paul Nicklen/AP hide caption itoggle caption Paul Nicklen/AP The Two-Way - News Blog Ancient Skeleton In Mexico Sheds Light On Americas Settlement DNA from a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl found in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula shows the same markers found in modern Native Americans. Listen Loading… 2:41 Download Playlist
Hozier performs live in Studio 1 at NPR's Washington, D.C. headquarters. hide caption itoggle caption Olivia Merrion/NPR Music Interviews Talking Blues With Hozier, A One-Man Irish Invasion The 24-year-old singer is poised to be the next big music export from across the Atlantic. Hozier talks about his music roots and rise to fame, and performs a few songs. Listen Loading… 12:51 Download Playlist
Jeb Stuart Magruder, then a Presbyterian minister, in 1995. Magruder, a top Nixon campaign official who went to prison for his role in Watergate, died on Sunday in Danbury, Conn. hide caption itoggle caption Breck Smither/AP The Two-Way - News Blog Watergate Conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder Dies At 79 As President Nixon's deputy campaign committee head, Magruder helped authorize the unsuccessful break-in of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters on June 17, 1972.
Dry Soda, Spindrift, Q and Veri Organic are four small companies that are trying to win back soda lovers by lowering the sugar. hide caption itoggle caption Maggie Starbard/NPR The Salt Will Soda Lovers Drink To Less Sugar? U.S. sales of sugared and diet sodas have slumped. So soda-makers are trying to win back consumers with new flavors and less sugar. But historically, midcalorie sodas haven't sold very well.
Navajo elder Stella Peshlakai Smith, 89, stands at a traditional dwelling on her homestead at Wupatki National Monument in 2014. The National Park Service says her children cannot stay when she dies. Felicia Fonseca/AP hide caption itoggle caption Felicia Fonseca/AP Code Switch Federal Goverment Jeopardizes Navajo Family's Ties To Its Land The National Park Service says that an 89-year-old Navajo elder will be the last to live at Wupatki National Monument. Stella Peshlakai Smith's family faces eviction when she dies. Listen Loading… 3:56 Download Playlist
A Stradivarius violin at the restoration and research laboratory of the Musee de la Musique, Paris, in 2009. hide caption itoggle caption Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images Planet Money Is A Stradivarius Just A Violin? How much of what we think of as the beautiful sound of a Stradivarius is the instrument itself — and how much is the brand? Listen Loading… 5:05 Download Playlist
Drew Kilb/Duke University's Fuqua School of Business Shots - Health News FDA Dangles Golden Ticket To Spur Drugs For Neglected Diseases The Food and Drug Administration's approval of a new drug for leishmaniasis came with a voucher that can be redeemed to speed up the approval of a much more lucrative drug in the future.
Marion Cotillard stars in The Immigrant. hide caption itoggle caption Anne Joyce/The Weinstein Company Movie Reviews From The Traditions Of Melodrama, A Woman Of Resolve The Immigrant is an echo of midcentury melodramas that have fallen out of fashion, but stars Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix make indelible impressions.
Workers of the Ukrainian company Metinvest clear away debris in a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Friday. Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia separatists to retreat from the government buildings they occupied. hide caption itoggle caption Evgeniy Maloletka/AP The Two-Way - News Blog Separatists Abandon Government Buildings In Eastern Ukraine Patrols of miners and steelworkers, urged on by Ukraine's richest man, have forced pro-Russian partisans to end their occupation of some areas.
Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images Krulwich Wonders... When Numbers Bleed, Freeze And Die: The Dark Poetry Of Data Let me tell you a story — a history story — that's all numbers, only numbers, and still packs an emotional wallop. Button up. It's 1812. In Russia. It's cold.
An image taken from a video posted by Roger Triantafilo shows Tara the cat chasing off a dog that attacked Triantafilo's 4-year-old son. hide caption itoggle caption YouTube The Two-Way - News Blog That Darn Cat: 'Hero' Feline Will Throw Out First Pitch At Game The cat that saved a young boy from an attacking dog became an Internet star this week. Next week, we'll see how Tara the cat does on the ball field.
ABC's How To Get Away With Murder stars Oscar nominee Viola Davis. hide caption itoggle caption Craig Sjodin/ABC Monkey See This Fall, TV Looks Much More Diverse. Now Don't Screw It Up TV critic Eric Deggans looks at the more diverse landscape of fall TV and offers some suggestions on how diverse casts can add value without falling into the industry's most common bad habits.
Lara Russo (left), Cally Guasti (center) and Reese Werkhoven found more than $40,000 stashed inside the couch they bought at a Salvation Army store. hide caption itoggle caption Mike Groll/AP The Two-Way - News Blog Thrift-Store Couch Yields $40,000; Roommates Return Money Two months after they bought a couch for $20, three roommates realized it was stuffed with envelopes of cash. They decided to track down the rightful owner.
Romani Kafenava in Maribor, Slovenia, serves grilled meats, a typical Roma dish. Matej Kristovic/Courtesy of Epeka hide caption itoggle caption Matej Kristovic/Courtesy of Epeka The Salt Introducing Roma Cuisine, The Little-Known 'Soul Food' Of Europe There's a long history of prejudice against the Roma people in Europe. A nonprofit in Slovenia is hoping to diffuse it by launching a restaurant serving the tastiest of the traditional Roma dishes.