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A year after the earthquake and tsunami that killed almost 20,000 people in northeast Japan, schoolchildren are moving on, but have not forgotten. The students and their teachers talk about the effect the quake and its aftermath has had on them.

The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was delayed today for at least three days.

The practice of yoga, which began about 5,000 years ago in India, has become a booming industry in the U.S., with more than 15 million followers. But for commentator Sandip Roy, there is nothing distinctly Indian about his experience at a San Francisco yoga class.

A Fierce And Beautiful Cinematic Poem

Latinos, as a group, were among the hardest hit in the recession. But how are they faring as the economy slowly begins to recover?

On the new album Pushin' Against a Stone, the Tennessean surveys a spectrum of her home state's signature sounds. She tells NPR's Audie Cornish that she got over old anxieties about her singing voice by embracing it as a storytelling tool.

As Yemen becomes increasingly overpopulated and impoverished, many families see marrying off their young daughters and receiving dowries as a way to survive. But in early April, a 13-year-old girl bled to death after being forced to have intercourse with her 23-year-old husband. Despite widespread incidents of abuse and rape, child brides in Yemen have rarely protested or complained. But that is changing.

President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney agree that the American dream is out of reach for too many people today. They disagree on how to fix the problem.

Zach Houston makes a living on the streets of San Francisco by composing poems on a manual typewriter. Give him a topic, and he'll pound out a poem in a matter of minutes — hopefully for a donation that will help him stay in business.

A day after the names of children and educators killed by a gunman at a Connecticut elementary school were released by law enforcement officials, details about the victims and their lives are emerging. In the wake of Friday's depraved attack in which 20 students and 6 adults were murdered, family members and friends have made public statements about their loss. And some have chosen to mourn in private.