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In Hyderabad, Osmania University students celebrate the announcement of the separate Indian state of Telangana, on July 30. India's ruling Congress Party approved a resolution earlier that day to create the new state, amid fears that the decision could spark violence in the region.

Why India's Next State Is Not Likely To Be The Last

India has just approved plans to create a new state. Critics worry that the decision has opened a Pandora's box by fanning the flames of other long-simmering separatist movements, some of which are already demonstrating for their own states.

Sikh Says No Room For Hate, A Year After Temple Shooting

One year ago today, a gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple before turning the gun on himself. Host Michel Martin talks to a member of the temple, Mandeep Kaur, about how Sikhs have turned to their faith to recover.

Lack of Leadership Causing US Defense Issues Abroad?

A terror threat closes American embassies, and changes the political debate about intelligence gathering. Host Michel Martin talks politics with Republican strategist Ron Christie, and former Obama administration advisor Corey Ealons.

Tawana Brawley, with the Rev. Al Sharpton, in 1988.

15 Years Later, Tawana Brawley Has Paid 1 Percent Of Penalty

As a teenager, Brawley said she had been attacked and raped by white men. The young African-American's accusations hit front pages, especially after Rev. Al Sharpton took up her case. When a jury said the tale was a hoax, one of the men who was accused sued. Now, he's getting some of the money.

The burger developed by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

Long Awaited Lab-Grown Burger Is Unveiled In London

Rarely has a single food gotten such star treatment as the hamburger that made its debut in London on Monday. But the burger — grown from stem cells taken from a cow — represents a technology potentially so disruptive that it has attracted the support of Google co-founder Sergei Brin.

View of the front page of the October 30, 2009 edition of The Washington Post.

'Washington Post' To Be Sold To Amazon's Jeff Bezos

Bezos will pay $250 million in cash for the venerable journalism institution.

Amazon CEO To Buy 'Washington Post' And Sister Papers

The Washington Post Company announced Monday that it has sold its newspaper business including the Post and its sister papers to Jeffrey Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Bezos is buying the Washington Post properties as an individual not as part of Amazon.

Jeff Bezos, a tech titan and Amazon founder, purchased a venerable newspaper, <em>The Washington Post</em>.

In Bezos' Purchase Of 'Post,' Tech And Media Keep Melding

Jeff Bezos, a tech titan and Amazon founder, purchased a venerable newspaper, The Washington Post. Another tech titan's recent purchase of a magazine — The New Republic — may offer some insight about the path forward.

Maj. Nidal Hasan faces 13 charges of murder and 32 of attempted murder for the November 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

Court-Martial To Begin Tuesday In Fort Hood Shooting Rampage

Former Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with opening fire in a troop processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, and killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in 2009.

Robert Pinsky served as the United States Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000.

Pinsky's 'Singing School': Poetry For The Verse Averse

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky says he's tired of people thinking of poetry as bad-tasting medicine they have to swallow just because it's healthy. His anthology of 80 poems by master poets is designed to help us see poetry as an art "rather than a challenge to say smart things."

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