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New research indicates that five days after major NASCAR races, there is a measurable increase in traffic accidents caused by aggressive driving.

For more than 100 years, Texas A&M's version of cheerleaders have been men. Samantha Ketcham wants to change that. She has received enough votes to qualify for a runoff this week.

Pakistani journalist Pir Zubair Shah has been following drone strikes in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than half a decade. He talks to Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about his recent article in Foreign Policy magazine titled "My Drone War."

Dino Laurenzi Jr. says he performed his "job duties with integrity and professionalism." Laurenzi said he had collected hundreds of specimens.

The GDP grew at a 3 percent annual pace during the final three months of the year.

News Corp. said he was stepping down to focus on the company's international TV business.

The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a "tree lobster." Presumed extinct, some enterprising entomologists found them on a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean.

Our brains are filled with billions of neurons. Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung explains how mapping out the connections between those neurons might be the key to understanding the basis of things like personality, memory, perception, ideas and mental illness.

Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease can drain families' bank accounts. But there is also a high emotional price to be paid. The administration's federal budget would fund more support for family caregivers.

Writer Nick Flynn was working in a homeless shelter in his 20s when his father — an alcoholic and self-proclaimed writer who left when Flynn was a baby — showed up as a client. His story is now a movie called Being Flynn, starring Paul Dano and Robert De Niro.