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A $1 billion-a-year industry has sprung up offering advertisers and other businesses advice on how to get the most consumer traffic out of their Web pages. Most are ethical, but some specialize in building pages that trick search engines into thinking they're more important than they are. In response, engines continually tweak programs to prevent misleading returns. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

A group of leading Shiite clerics are holding talks to resolve the U.S. standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose anti-American rhetoric touched off a wave of attacks on U.S.-led forces in several Iraqi cities. Al-Sadr's militiamen have withdrawn from police and government buildings they had occupied, but the security situation remains unstable. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

Conjuring images of America's founding fathers — Washington, Adams, Franklin — is easy. But less is known about the women who helped build a new nation. In a new book, Founding Mothers, NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts examines the lives and contributions of Revolutionary wives and lesser-known women of the era. Roberts speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.

The Northern Forest Center received a $1 million federal grant to support workforce housing initiatives in four northern border towns, including…

The group was awarded the prize for its contribution to the building of a democracy in Tunisia, in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution.

Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she now opposes building the Keystone XL pipeline. See where the other candidates stand.

At a prison in Ohio some inmates who were supposed to be recycling computer parts managed to stash computers in the ceiling and use them to access porn and instructions on how to build explosives.

Since the 1990s, lawmakers have been given free beer and wine in the parliament building. A member of the ethics committee suggested that maybe banning it could "improve the quality of debate."

Thousands of protesters have descended on a quiet part of North Dakota, occasionally clashing with security personnel over plans to build an oil pipeline there.

What will the music of the future sound like? New Hampshire composer Greg Wilder is hoping to build the machine that writes it.