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Archaeologist Heather Knight tells NPR's Scott Simon about how the Curtain Theatre, where Shakespeare staged early plays, was rectangular and not round.

In the latest installment of the summer's What's Bugging You series, Paige Howorth, curator of invertebrates at the San Diego Zoo, takes us on a tour of the aquatic bug world.

"Being united is a response to this act of horror and barbarism," said one Muslim leader. Many Muslims across France were sending a message of unity after two extremist teens brutally killed a priest.

Just days before the Democratic National Committee convention gets underway, WikiLeaks releases almost 20,000 emails among DNC staff, revealing discussions of topics from Bernie Sanders to the media.

Hackers tied to two Russian intelligence agencies breached DNC computers in May, but whether the same hackers turned over thousands of emails to WikiLeaks is still under investigation.

French President Francois Hollande's coif hasn't really been a subject of conversation, until now. He's facing a scandal after it emerged that he pays a hairdresser nearly $11,000 every month.

Peru's government has declared a state of emergency in the southern Andes, where brutally cold temperatures have killed the animals and threatened farmers living at high altitude.

The deal comes more than a year after Verizon paid $4.4 billion to acquire AOL; as part of Verizon, Yahoo will join the same division AOL currently occupies.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who will be stepping down as DNC chair after the convention, had an abysmal weekend. Monday morning started out no better for her.

In the latest story from listeners about their Travel Nightmares, Susan Ford Hoffert tells us about a monkey attack in South Africa.