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The Des Moines Register's Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) kicked off this weekend and this year, NPR's national political correspondent Don Gonyea is riding in the pack.

Some states plan to close their high-risk insurance pools in 2014. But new options under the Affordable Care Act are likely to offer lower premiums and lower deductibles, insurance specialists say.

The Rolling Stones have been making their special blend of music since the early 60s. And they're still playing to sold-out crowds in huge arenas. A new book digs into their catalog of great songs.

According to a "nightlife" website, Weiner sexted with an unidentified woman about a year after he resigned from Congress. Weiner is trying to revive his political career with a run for New York City mayor.

School systems nationwide are scrambling to prepare teachers to implement new education standards known as the Common Core. In some cases, the standards, which lay out what students will be expected to know by the end of each grade, will require teachers to adopt new teaching methods.

In a video, Disco's owners document how the parakeet learned to say, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."

For many poor rural Indians, their children represent their hopes and dreams for the future — and the education they scrimp and save for represents the hope that their children might relieve their burden of poverty. But for many villagers who lost their children in last week's poisoning incident in the state of Bihar, their circumstances are so dire and their life experience so crushing, that they lack any faith that they will get justice or that they can ever raise their voice effectively.

Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Monday and was greeted by adoring masses and protesters alike. It is his first foreign trip since becoming pope.

Texas is one of several states that have passed laws tightening standards for clinics and doctors who provide abortions. Proponents say the laws make the procedure safer. But abortion rights advocates say the tightened requirements are unnecessary and driven by ideology, not safety concerns.

For the first time since the Tony Award-winning adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1972, New York's Public Theater is presenting a brand-new musical as part of the Shakespeare in the Park series. The team behind the hit Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson have adapted Love's Labour's Lost.