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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case testing whether a police officer may make a traffic stop on the assumption that the driver of a car is also the owner.

Congress begins debate this week on how to try detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The hearings come in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the secret military tribunals set up by the Bush administration.

The printing presses are rolling on the 2020 census, but the Justice Department says it has been instructed to find a new way to ask responders a controversial question about citizenship.

The Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC is taking place in Washington, D.C. Controversy inside the governing organization has some potential 2024 presidential contenders sitting it out.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Chuck Culpepper of The Washington Post, about the University of Connecticut defeating San Diego state 76-58, to win the men's championship for the fifth time.

The group is suing the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to build affordable housing. The suit claims the VA hasn't lived up to a 2011 agreement to house veterans.

Kristopher Jansma's debut novel is a hypercomplex meditation on the boundary between truth and lies. Heller McAlpin says the book "reaches a dizzying complexity that borders on the tiresome."

Fred Venturini's debut has a fascinating concept: What happens when a small-town kid gets amazing healing powers? But critic Jason Heller says the book never manages to explore that question fully.

Nova Ren Suma takes all the classic Gothic novel tropes — an old house, a cursed ring, evil stepsisters, a dark family legacy — and gives them a bracing update in A Room Away From the Wolves.

Sloane Crosley's new novel, The Clasp, follows a group of disaffected 30-somethings who gather for a classmate's posh wedding — but the casual misanthropy of the characters dims the book's pleasures.