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The new leader of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office gives his first interview to NPR about security posture in the U.S. capital in the face of threats by the Islamic State.

NPR talks to the man who created the painting of the world's largest jigsaw puzzle, Adrian Chesterman. It has 33,600 pieces, and when completed it is more than 18 by 5 feet.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Oren Gross, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, about the history of the French state of emergency law, which gives authorities broad powers.

Homelessness in Los Angeles has spread far beyond the area known as Skid Row. The number of people living on the streets has risen 12 percent in the past two years. And now some parts of the city are struggling to manage big homeless populations they've never seen before.

Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Ben Taub, who has a piece in The New Yorker, about why the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek has been a center for radical terrorists in recent years.

Pranksters from Arizona State visited their rival's campus to collect signatures for a ballot measure declaring the University of Arizona was built on land taken from Mexico and should be returned.

Over the last year, the bassist and NPR's Audie Cornish have discussed and dissected everything about jazz. Their latest chat, held for a live audience, focuses on how his own career started.

President Obama challenged his critics to offer solutions of their own to defeat ISIS. So what are the Republican candidates saying?

As the French government is pressured to prevent another attack, the prosecutor's office says the organizer of the attacks is dead. Tension from the attacks has spread to other European countries.

Billions of people around the world don't use flush toilets. That's why there are so many signs that explain what to do — and what not to do.