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After ISIS took their villages in Iraq, hundreds of members of the religious minority survived on wild plants and tomato paste through a bitterly cold winter on a mountain they consider miraculous.

President Obama challenged his critics to offer solutions of their own to defeat ISIS. So what are the Republican candidates saying?

Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio and others are supporting the idea of a no-fly zone over Syria to try to help civilians there. But skeptics say it no longer has any relevance to today's Syrian crisis.

NPR has the latest on the attacks in Paris that have left at least 100 people dead. The Paris prosecutor says the attacks occurred at six separate sites across the city.

Fox News star Bill O'Reilly has used his show to go after a leading critic of his book on President Reagan: The Washington Post's George Will, who is also a Fox News contributor.

It's not just the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are worried about the growing gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America. As income inequality has become a hot political topic, Democrats are seeing a populist opportunity and Republicans are starting to change their tone.

A woman who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment alleged Friday that the incidents were "a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the CEO."

Over the last three decades, the gap between the very rich and the very poor has grown exponentially. In the yawning middle is a group for whom it's getting harder and harder to stay in place economically. Host Audie Cornish speaks with two generations of a middle-class family that face drastically different financial futures.

Gingrich may have found his voice by turning the tables on the political press. Republicans have been doing this fourth-estate two-step for decades — quite explicitly at least since Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in 1968. That might work for the back of the pack, but how will it play for a front-runner?

The big theme out of Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate in Washington was Newt Gingrich's compassionate tolerance toward illegal immigrants who have put down deep roots in the U.S. That position conflicted with the more hardline views of many conservative voters.