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North Korean restaurants, like this one in Vientiane, Laos, don't just serve North Korean cuisine. They are run by the North Korean government as a way to earn hard currency to send back to an increasingly sanctioned Pyongyang.

Would You Like A Side Of Propaganda? Lunch At A North Korean Restaurant

North Korean karaoke videos in the background, decent food and a free copy of the works of Kim Il Sung: a dispatch from inside one of Pyongyang's currency-making outposts.

Mentoring Program Works To Prevent Radicalization In Copenhagen

The most effective de-radicalization programs build trust and then challenges a jihadist mindset. A version of this program in Copenhagen, Denmark, is called VINK. A counselor explains the process and the lessons it might hold for the U.S.

Hollywood Offers New Batch Of Likely Awards Contenders For Fall

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello has a selective preview of likely blockbusters and awards contenders that Hollywood has in store for the fall.

In June 2013, Tuskegee Airman Dabney Montgomery waves to the crowd as he is introduced before the start of a baseball game in New York.

Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. Bodyguard Dies at 93

Dabney Montgomery served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airmen in Italy in World War II. He joined the civil rights movement when he came home and protected King during the march from Selma.

Venus Williams Knocked Out Of U.S. Open After Losing To Karolina Pliskova

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated about the U.S. Open. Williams was ousted Monday after losing a close match, and Rafael Nadal was knocked off Sunday in a big upset.

Jason Brezler in the market of Nowzad on May 7, 2010, with village elders, Afghan National Police and U.S. Marines. Maj. Brezler is now facing a possible discharge from the Marines after he emailed classified documents.

A U.S. Marine Tried To Warn A Comrade, Now He Faces A Discharge

Marine reservist Jason Brezler warned comrades in Afghanistan about a dirty Afghan cop. No one took heed, and three Marines died. Now Brezler is facing a possible discharge from the Corps.

Texas Prison Museum Director Jim Willett with the retired electric chair, "Old Sparky," the most popular exhibit in his museum.

From Homemade Weapons To Inmate Art, An Inside Look At Life Behind Bars

The Texas Prison Museum displays wooden guns that look real, shanks made from spoons and a chess set carved from soap. The item that gets the most attention? An electric chair nicknamed Old Sparky.

Phyllis Schlafly, Who Opposed Equal Rights Amendment, Dies At 92

Schlafly may best be remembered for her efforts in 1973 to stop the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Steve Inskeep talks to Penny Young Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America.

Amor Towles likes to write about the past, but says he is not driven by historical research. He prefers instead to play in between what is real and what is imagined. His first novel was called <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138716830/refined-manhattan-shines-with-glamorous-civility">Rules of Civility</a>.

Idea For 'Gentleman In Moscow' Came From Many Nights In Luxury Hotels

During the 20 years he worked for an investment firm, Amor Towles spent a lot of time in fancy hotels. His new novel follows a Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest at the Metropol in Moscow.

Washington University team (from left to right): electrical engineer Paul Dowkontt, graduate student Banafsheh Beheshtipour, and professors Krawczynski and Kislat) in the Fort Sumner NASA station in front of the X-Ray telescope.

Wash U astrophysicists to fly a balloon to get a view of black holes

A giant balloon will soon provide scientists at Washington University in St. Louis a view of black holes in the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers will...

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