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The Molenbeek district of Brussels is home to many of the terrorists who plotted the Paris and Brussels attacks. Its people are saddened, horrified and turning inward after this week's carnage.

Roads in Michigan are riddled with potholes. So, the Hamtramck Guerrilla Road Repair crew didn't wait for the government. The group bought tools and got to work on their neighborhood's worst block.

Bob Mondello looks at the most-produced shows at high schools through seven decades and ponders what the choices made by drama teachers tell us.

Orson Welles, born 100 years ago this week, is well-known for breaking new ground in theater and film. But, as author Colin Fleming tells NPR's Rachel Martin, he also did significant work in radio.

And she recorded that conversation with StoryCorps. "Do you think you're dying?" she asked him then — and he replied, simply: "Everybody dies." For him, family was everything.

For Mother's Day, we hear from a strong-willed grandmother who talks about her life of no regrets.

For an American Muslim woman, deciding whether or not to wear the headscarf — or hijab — isn't a choice to be taken lightly.

Entertainer Bill Cosby heads to court on Tuesday in what is expected to be the first of many attempts by his attorneys to derail his sexual assault criminal charges. The Tuesday hearing is focused on one question: Do the charges represent a broken promise? More legal experts say no, but Cosby's team is expected to put on a vigorous defense of that claim.

The price of oil has dropped to its lowest point in years in recent weeks. That's meant layoffs and people falling behind on payments for the fancy vehicles they bought during the good times.

As House Speaker John Boehner steps down, NPR's Brian Naylor offers a look at how Boehner shaped, and struggled with, the institution he loved — the U.S. House of Representatives.