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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is facing scrutiny over his biography, which states he was offered a scholarship to the U.S. military academy at West Point. It turns out, Carson never applied to the academy, his campaign said Friday.

In a world of Big Mac sushi and Cajun rolls, Japan is launching a new program to certify those Japanese restaurants outside the country that uphold traditional washoku cuisine values.

With its vibrant watercolor illustrations and delicate hand-lettered recipes, artist Marcella Kriebel's cookbook is as much an art project as a manual for making tasty meals from Latin America.

Trump has inspired strong feelings among religious conservatives. Some see him as a fighter. One prominent leader called him a visionary. Others see him as a "train wreck" who's paying lip service.

In tiny Earlham, Iowa, friends and neighbors are passionate about their candidates but keep the debate civil.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tighter race than Clinton could have imagined months ago. Now, Clinton and her allies are criticizing Sanders' preparedness to be president.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Matt Kibbe, senior advisor for Concerned American Voters, a superPAC supporting Rand Paul. He joins us to speak about the state of libertarians and where they will throw their support now that Rand Paul has suspended his presidential campaign.

The Cedid was one of the first printed atlases from the Muslim world. There were 14 known copies in existence — until a Norwegian reference librarian with a fondness for /r/MapPorn noticed something.

China sends more students to the U.S. than any other country, and a growing number of them are teenagers. More than 23,000 Chinese teens attend a U.S. high school — hoping to go on to a good college.

Because really, Delhi's system does everything right that the nation's capital is doing wrong.