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Singer-songwriter Carole King started young: She was just 15 when she founded a doo-wop group with her classmates. The act never took off, but King eventually became one of the biggest-selling artists of all time. She tells the story of her career so far in a new memoir, A Natural Woman.

Export controls designed to restrict international trade in weapons are keeping scientists from sharing their research on the bird flu virus.

Many young Greeks are worried that the nation's economy will take years to recover. Some are leaving for jobs abroad, but a few are starting businesses in the midst of the worst recession in decades.

The new Major League Baseball season isn't even a week old, and already there's controversy brewing. Ozzie Guillen, the new manager of the Miami Marlins, is holding a news conference Tuesday to apologize for recent comments he made about Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

A shooting spree that left three African-Americans dead in Oklahoma and the death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin have renewed public debate about hate crime laws. Host Michel Martin speaks with law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler about hate crime statutes and whether they're necessary.

There are 700,000 fewer people working for state and local governments than there were before the recession. Although tax collections are improving, the public sector remains in no mood to hire.

More and more often, elected officials and their staffs are checking out journalists who come calling. They say they just can't be sure anymore if someone really is or isn't a reporter.

Despite falling short in the quest for the Republican presidential nomination, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has established himself as one of the dominant conservative voices in America, particularly when it comes to social issues such as abortion and birth control.

Several teachers have been disciplined, and even fired, for their online activities. A Philadelphia teacher was suspended after posting that students acted like "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners." And a Georgia teacher was forced to resign over a Facebook photo that showed her drinking alcohol.

It's like the end of a marriage. Earlier this year, a Virginia judge ruled that seven conservative congregations that had split with the Episcopal Church must hand over almost everything they own, including their places of worship. "It's a tremendous loss," says one conservative parishioner.