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Eunju Namkung's family thinks she's a broken gourd. The New York City high school senior received a top honor for her essay, "Broken Gourd" from this year's Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In her essay, she explores her relationship with her Korean parents, who do not speak English.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been charged on eight counts, including perjury, after explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Kilpatrick refuses to step down and says he expects to be exonerated. Detroit Public Radio's Noah Ovshinsky reports.

The CIA Tuesday released the executive summary of a report that assesses the agency's anti-terror measures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. The Inspector General's report is critical of the CIA's top officials, including former director George Tenet.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flies to Japan today to begin a week-long trip across Asia. It is her first trip as the Obama administration's top diplomat — and she says she's looking for ways that the U.S. and asian countries can chart a "common future."

"It appears he was a study in contrast," The Denver Post reports. The man arrested after a shooting rampage that left 12 people dead and about 58 wounded was just "Jimmy" Holmes in high school. In college, he was a top student.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has outlined the options and risks of U.S. military involvement in Syria. Read his letter to the chairman of the Senate's Armed Services Committee.

For the first time, a woman has been named CEO of a major U.S. automotive company. Mary Barra, 51, breaks a glass ceiling in one of the most male-dominated industries in the nation. But women buy more than half the cars in America, so the question is why it took so long.

America's top math students went head-to-head with competitors from more than 100 countries — and they won. "If you can even solve one question," their head coach says, "you're a bit of a genius."

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Aaron Taylor, a law professor at Saint Louis University who monitors patterns of student enrollment, about the declining number of people applying to law school.

The share of total income of the top 1% of earners in the U.S. more than doubled over four decades. But in Europe, the gains were less dramatic. What accounts for the difference across the Atlantic?