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Some of the leaders of the AI race are calling for a slowdown, for safety's sake. Viewed in economics terms, it's a collective action problem: no one wants to slow down unless everyone does.

Utah's top election official said her office doesn't know how many will come or where they'll be stationed. The monitors won't identify themselves to voters, but aren't allowed to interfere with them.

Utah Supreme Court Justice Michael Menssen signed the petition seven months before he was appointed to the bench. An advocacy group wants him to recuse himself from the case.

In the Albanian capital of Tirana, protesters squared off with police in what have become violent daily protests over what they say is a corrupt government.

After their daughter was diagnosed with a rare inherited disease in 2013, the O'Neill family raised money to find a treatment. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a gene therapy.

Shoppers in the U.S. are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a mahjong set. In the eastern Chinese city of Taixing, manufacturers can barely keep up with the demand.

In swing states, clergy of all faiths are training as Election Day "poll chaplains," to be stationed 100 feet from some voting sites to help voters and maintain order.

New research in the journal Science finds that crows turn visual information into decisions twice as fast as humans and primates. They also process information is quite similarly to humans.

Author Zadie Smith reflects on the 25th anniversary of her debut novel "White Teeth" and how her relationship with time has shifted over the years.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Allison Janney about her return to Broadway in Other Desert Cities, and how it compares to her debut 30 years ago.