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Congress is investigating a billion dollar program that includes a controversial contract given to a San Antonio company. Federal investigators may also...

We journey the rugged hills and windy roads of what's known as Area C. It comprises most of the Israeli-occupied West Bank — it's where Israelis and Palestinians rub shoulders as closely as anywhere.

Ben Affleck directs a movie that tries (and fails) to squeeze dramatic tension out of the origins of the Air Jordan. Matt Damon and Viola Davis star in this soulless dramatization.

Chants calling for "intifada" have been a prominent feature of pro-Palestinian student protests. It's a charged word whose use is perceived differently by people with opposing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Unlike Germany, which after World War II underwent a rigorous de-Nazification effort, pride, rather than shame, is the emotion many Italians feel for the symbols of the country's fascist past.

Ten people have been charged with murder in Otieno's death at a Virginia psychiatric hospital earlier this month. Caroline Ouko and attorney Ben Crump reflect on his life and what happens next.

The incoming Israeli government includes ultra-nationalists who Israeli democracy groups and Palestinians fear could touch off violence and damage liberal norms.

Melissa Block speaks with Dan Friedman, who covers Washington for the New York Daily News, about how a question he asked of a source on Capitol Hill became the centerpiece for an explosive story spread by conservative media. Friedman says that in asking whether Chuck Hagel, who's been nominated to be secretary of defense, had received speaking fees from controversial groups, he made up the name "Friends of Hamas" as a farcical example. That name later surfaced on Breitbart.com, despite the fact that the group does not exist.

New Yorker reporter Ben Taub says hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, are being detained, tortured, killed or cast out for suspected association with ISIS.

It's all about the cello this week on SONGBIRDS. We'll hear from artists like Katie Herzig, Ben Sollee. Monique Clare and more. This episode is inspired…