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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh last month. "We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world," he said at the economic forum.

With Saudi Arrests, Crown Prince Shows He Can Force Change. But It's Not Democracy

The weekend's arrests don't mean Saudi Arabia is opening up to democracy. The rulers are unelected monarchs with a record of jailing critics and minorities. But the sweep of arrests marks a change.

In 'Crash Override,' Zoe Quinn Shares Her Boss Battle Against Online Harassment

Having watched many colleagues attacked for speaking up, gamer Latoya Peterson offers a deeply personal review. "I applaud Quinn for ... accepting that she is messy, imperfect and, well: Human."

The test model of the capsule for the Orion spacecraft is tethered to a lift, Nov. 3, 2016.

NASA Tests Mars Capsule For Recovery Off San Diego

The agency plans to use the waters off San Diego to splashdown future expeditions to Mars and other long-range missions. In the meantime, the area will be the site for an increasing number of tests.

Arunachalam Muruganatham poses with actor Akshay Kumar, who portrays him in the new film Pad Man. It's a biopic about Muruganatham's quest to invent a machine that could make low-cost sanitary napkins.

'Pad Man' Is A Bollywood Movie About A Man And His Menstrual Pads

It's the real-life story of a tinkerer obsessed with manufacturing low-cost sanitary napkins. And it even has songs.

An International Red Cross plane drops emergency food supplies in Leer, South Sudan.

Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It's Happening

It's difficult. It's potentially dangerous. It's costly. And it's going on in South Sudan right now.

Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It's Happening

It's difficult. It's potentially dangerous. It's costly. And it's going on in South Sudan right now.

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, executive vice presidents at the Trump Organization, attend the Trump International Hotel And Tower Vancouver Grand Opening in February.

New Trump Hotel Set To Open In Heart Of The Mississippi Delta

Ethics experts question new Trump hotels being built during his presidency. The new Trump-associated line looks to capitalize on a nearby Grammy museum — and is also running into local politics

Nobel Committee for Physics members announce the 2017 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The laureates are (from left) Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.

They Proved Einstein Right; Now They've Won The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize

For years, three physicists worked to prove Albert Einstein's idea that gravitational waves are rippling through space-time. In 2015, they made history as part of the LIGO Collaboration.

Starbucks is shutting down thousands of its coffee shops Tuesday afternoon to host racial bias training for its employees. A sign at one of the company's cafes in Portland, Maine, informs customers that it will shut its doors at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Starbucks Closes More Than 8,000 Stores Today For Racial Bias Training

The plan covers Starbucks-operated stores; nearly all of the 7,000 Starbucks-licensed coffee shops are likely to remain open.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russia investigation, leaves following a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2017.

NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: Republicans Sour On Mueller, FBI

The former FBI director's favorability ratings dropped a net of 11 percentage points overall since last month, as Trump and conservatives ratcheted up attacks on the ongoing investigation.

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