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In 2010, writer Don Winslow hit it big with his crime novel, Savages. Although he'd already written 12 novels, Savages was the book that really launched his career. It made it to the top of The New York Times best-sellers list. His new book, The Kings of Cool, is a prequel to Savages.

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky's new book is made up of essays, anecdotes, stories and insights shuffled in and out of order, like cards in a deck. Everything in the book is true, Tobolowsky says: "True trumps clever any day of the week."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Omar Rajarathnam about the cargo ship sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster.

Nearly a century ago, explorer Hanns Vischer undertook a grueling 1,500-mile journey by camel across the Sahara desert. He later said that he entered the desert like a fool, and left it nearly crushed. A modern-day explorer has recreated his trek.

In the past decade, nearly 100 young women have been murdered in a grisly series of sexual homicides in the ramshackle border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NPR's John Burnett talks to the city's most vulnerable women -- factory workers, students, prostitutes -- and to groups seaching for answers, and safety. View a photo gallery, and listen to an extended interview with women's right advocates fighting for safer streets.

Senate debate over the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the federal bench enters a second day. Overshadowing her confirmation is the larger battle over the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominees. At the end of 100 hours of debate, the Senate is expected to vote on rules changes to eliminate the filibuster.

It used to take seven to 10 business days to get a new credit card. Because of an ongoing chip shortage, deliveries can take almost two months, and that could be the case through the end of the year.

It used to take seven to 10 business days to get a new credit card. Because of an ongoing chip shortage, deliveries can take almost two months, and that could be the case through the end of the year.

Nichols died a few days after he was taken into custody by the Memphis Police, in a violent incident his family says left him "unrecognizable." Five officers have been fired.

President Obama said Monday the government was doing everything in its power to keep the traveling public safe. Obama was making his first live public statement since a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day.