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The 71-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist has a new solo album, a new documentary on his life, and a few thoughts to share on the topic of immortality.

Renee Montagne talks to Ben Zimmer, executive editor of Vocabulary.com, about some of the presidential and not so presidential words that came up during this week's Republican debate.

The settlement proposed by the Departments of Justice and Interior involves claims that the federal government contracted with tribes to run programs but failed to pay for all the services rendered.

Call it the stock market of politics. A new trading market allows people to essentially place bets on who will win a debate, get the most speaking time and more. And it walks a fine legal line.

From Kate Beaton (the creator of Hark! A Vagrant) comes a new collection of comics that combines deadpan humor with minimalist style, drawing inspiration from often surprising historical figures.

Winners included Michael Smith who created a pain scale for bee bites. The award for literature went to two colleagues for discovering that the word "huh" is used in languages around the world.

In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

Anesthesiologists make a lot of money. But female anesthesiologists make much less than their male counterparts, a RAND study finds. It's the latest evidence of a persistent pay gap in health care.

The agency says some 480,000 diesel-powered Volkswagens have sophisticated software that detects emissions testing — and "turns full emissions controls on only during the test."

"We have a problem in this country," the town hall attendee said. "It's called Muslims. We know our current president is one." Trump's political rivals denounced his response (or lack thereof).