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Did Abercrombie & Fitch violate a prohibition against religious discrimination by not hiring a woman who wears a hijab? The company contends it just has a neutral policy against wearing caps.

Hey, Home Post readers. Some tragic news coming out of Camp Pendleton, where two sailors lost their lives in a training accident. Another story focuses on the high rate of divorce among women in the military.

In Nashville, several public schools are struggling to compete with nearby charters. To recruit more students, teachers are tearing a page from the charter playbook: going door to door.

Paul Smith's College, in upstate New York, is among a handful of higher ed institutions offering coursework in craft beer. Be forewarned: The classes are heavier on the science than the partying.

In January, most members of Congress were catching their breath after a long campaign. Not California Rep. Mike Honda.

New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday in a divisive case the state has already vowed to appeal.

Cut a tumor from a child's brain and you may save a life. But surgery can hurt the child if healthy brain cells are removed. A Seattle doctor is working on a substance that might help. It binds tightly to cancer cells and makes them glow, so they're easier to distinguish from healthy tissue.

Airs Monday, May 26, 2014 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The scientists found that the development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, which can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer, can be inhibited by interfering with a particular inflammatory protein.

Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens sketches a history of the American left that is at once intimate and expansive. Out of the lives of a few conflicted characters, reviewer Mohsin Hamid explains, the book lends depth and emotion to events that affected millions.