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The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi calls for "the whole world to open its doors to Syrians" fleeing the country's bloody civil war.

Zahran Alloush was a controversial figure, at odds with the Syrian regime, ISIS, and secular activists.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to author Julia Lee about her book Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals. She chronicles the story of the African-American actors in the films. They were hailed as heroes of the black community for a time but were later reviled for their roles.

In an NPR interview, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi also calls on the U.S. to focus more firepower on Iraq's western border with Syria, saying Islamic State fighters can enter his country too easily.

Many kids reject or cough up the bitter adult-size pills for TB. The new ones dissolve in water and come in precise kid-size doses.

Last week, a hung jury failed to come to an agreement on whether William Porter was guilty of involuntary manslaughter and other charges. Porter was the first of six police officers to be tried.

Lawmakers in the House passed the Space Act, which says U.S. companies can harvest, own and trade resources from space. Two companies have put millions of dollars into the vision of mining asteroids.

The famous New York home of the Ramones and the Talking Heads closed its doors a decade ago. But according to Rolling Stone online, that grungy nightclub is re-opening as a restaurant in New Jersey.

Most of them are from Syria, Africa and South Asia. The International Organization for Migration says this is the highest migration flow since World War II.

The SpaceX team just lost it after one of their rockets launched satellites to space and then landed back on Earth upright.