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Picketers in seven cities say McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains should pay employees $15 an hour. But the restaurant industry says that would force those companies to cut jobs.

A new survey about American attitudes toward abortion turns up strong regional differences in opinion. And the divide seems to be growing. Renee Montagne talks to Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the survey.

Janet Yellen is on President Obama's short list to replace Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve.

Richard Diedrich of Illinois lost his high school class ring in 1948. Sixty-five years later, Mike Geiger was using a metal detector in a Wisconsin lake when he found it. Diedrich can't believe he's got his ring again at age 82.

Many parents look to parenting books and blogs for tips on raising their children. Amy Webb prefers to collect and analyze her own data to direct her parenting style.

The Taliban is claiming responsibility for a sophisticated attack on a prison in Pakistan that freed more than 200 inmates, many of them described as dangerous terrorists.

The legislation provides women with access to abortion in cases where their lives are at risk, including cases in which suicide could be a factor.

Ahead of the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival this weekend, Here & Now sits down with two authors, Ward Just and Laura Wainwright, who both make the Vineyard their home year-round.

The Weekend Edition host used Twitter to share his observations and feelings in the final, tender moments of his mother's life. In a conversation with NPR's Audie Cornish, Simon remembers his late mom and explains how the social media community bolstered his spirits in a time of grieving.

Georgia, like many other states, protects the identity of companies that make drugs used in executions. The lawyer of a death row inmate says not being able to verify the effectiveness of the drug violates his client's right "to be free from cruel and unusual punishment."