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Noor Pervez, community engagement manager at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, helped Mattel design a new autistic Barbie.

Economists have found U.S. consumers tend to overbuy in a panicked frenzy before storms like Fern, racing to hoard milk, bread, and canned essential goods, clearing shelves of grocery stores in a storm’s projected path.

The North Carolinian wife of the Patriots’ quarterback has won the hearts of New Englanders.

While the parks remain very popular, the costs for families have skyrocketed, pricing out the middle class.

When a militant Islamic group known as the Taliban took over most of Afganistan, it imposed its brand of fundamentalism on the areas it controls. NPR's Michael Sullivan has the first in a series of reports on how Islamic fundamentalism is influencing central Asia.

On "Aperture," the lead single from his upcoming album, the pop artist mines a different era of pop music.

The Department of Justice and FBI are ceding their traditional role leading investigations in the wake of shootings in Minneapolis to the Department of Homeland Security.

NPR's Michael Sullivan has the fourth in a series of reports on how the rise of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan has affected neighboring countries. The threat of the Taliban to India is probably *not* great, but India, which has been fighting Muslim separatists in Kashmir, does worry about home-grown Islamic fundamentalism.

Restaurants in Minneapolis have shifted their business strategies -- and their missions -- around the federal immigration push in the Twin Cities region.

New research looks at the long-term impact of a controversial federal program from the 1990s that demolished housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income developments.