According to recent VA statistics, PTSD and depression are the top disability claims among America's female veterans. But many have trouble proving they saw combat — a key to being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. One decorated war veteran's story is emblematic of the struggle to get help.

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New York City parents want the right to bake their cake and sell it, too, after officials began enforcing a once-a-month limit on PTA bake sales during the school day. Schools say they're trying to balance health with the need to find ways to fund programs. But parents say their treats are more wholesome than the prepackaged foods that schools do allow.

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Scholar Philip Jenkins argues that scriptures in the Quran are less brutal than those in the Bible. In his forthcoming book, Dark Passages, Jenkins points out that violence in the Quran is mostly defensive, but in the Bible, it is often a method of genocide.

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The U.S. and other developed countries have quietly been negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement for several years. But secrecy around the talks has led to speculation about what's in the proposed international pact that centers on intellectual property rights.

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A public agency in Minnesota is engaged in a cutting-edge experiment with flexible work schedules. It's called a results-only work environment, and it gives everyone in an office ultimate freedom to do their jobs — whenever and wherever they want — so long as the work gets done.

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The New York Theatre Workshop's production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers examines the gray area between the rights of the press to publish and those of the government to protect its secrets.

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If you don't make your car payments, someone can be hired to repossess it. They might tow it from your driveway or a parking lot. But sometimes repo men go further, breaking into people's garages or homes. Fights can break out. People get hurt, and some have even been killed, prompting some groups to call for greater regulation.

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In just a few weeks, fans of the Coffee Party on Facebook mushroomed from a few hundred to more than 100,000 — making documentary filmmaker Annabel Park the accidental leader of a political movement. Coffee Parties are meeting all across the country Saturday. What exactly are they going to do?

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Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of reporters with NPR's Planet Money used $1,000 of their own cash to buy a tiny piece of one — and plan to track it until it dies.

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Clairvoyant computers may be nearer to reality than you'd think. In a new study, a computer program that analyzes brain scans was able to detect participants' thoughts — or at least their memories of a short film they were thinking about.

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