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A busy sidewalk in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital. Indonesia's founding philosophy includes the notions of unity and social justice for all. But there are growing concerns that the country is becoming less tolerant than it once was.

Indonesia's founding philosophy includes the notions of unity and social justice for all. But there are growing concerns that the country is becoming less tolerant than it once was.

Abigail Noel Fisher, who challenged a racial component to University of Texas at Austin's admissions policy, speaks to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court building during arguments in the case in October of 2013.

Affirmative Action Fight Returns To The U.S. Supreme Court

For the second time, the University of Texas must defend its limited use of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.

Sweet or salty? Historically among Eastern European Jews, how they liked their gefilte fish depended on where they lived. This divide created a strictly Jewish geography known as "the gefilte fish line."

The Gefilte Fish Line: A Sweet And Salty History Of Jewish Identity

Gefilte fish can be a hard sell even in its standard savory form. But some European Jews like it sweet, a preference that, surprisingly, overlaps exactly with a geographic and linguistic divide.

Politics In The News: Congress Returns On Tuesday

On top of pressing fiscal deadlines, hurricane relief and tax overhaul, President Trump may ask lawmakers to take on a controversial immigration policy regarding so-called "DREAMers."

In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Genaro Garcia Luna attends a press conference on the sidelines of an American Police Community meeting in Mexico City. Garcia Luna, who is in custody and facing drug trafficking charges in New York, has been charged in a superseding indictment with continuing criminal enterprise.

He was the head of Mexico's FBI. Now he's on trial for accepting cartel bribes

Guilty or innocent, the drug-corruption trial in New York of high-ranking former Mexican government official, Genaro Garcia Luna, shows the limits of the U.S. to win its decades-long "war on drugs."

The tugboat Arthur Foss, which appeared in the early Hollywood film Tugboat Annie, docked on Lake Union in Seattle in 2012.

March 13: 'Tugboat Annie,' a jazz trumpet twofer and Microsoft's IPO

March 13 is the day one of Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugboat Annie" stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The series inspired the early Hollywood film, Northwest scenery included. It is also the birthday of two top-shelf trumpet players— Blue Mitchell and Terence Blanchard.

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