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Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood says it will not field a candidate in the presidential election expected later this year. But that hasn't stopped Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh — a charismatic moderate who spent 30 years in the movement's top ranks — from considering a campaign as an independent.

While Wall Street experiences the biggest stock sell-off in years, some successful investors don't appear to be concerned. They're out buying stocks while everybody else panics. Top executives are also downplaying the perceived crisis. For many, though, it's hard to ignore the historic downgrade of U.S. Treasuries and other unpleasant developments.

A top-secret Defense Department report on the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers was leaked and partially published by The New York Times 40 years ago. Now all 7,000 pages are available in their entirety. "It's the real deal," says the man who organized their release.

London's two top police officials have resigned amid the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal. The developments revealed cash for tips and a coziness between leaders of the department and the company.

A new study shows that it is more difficult to "move up" in America than other developed countries. In America, kids are more likely to stay at the bottom of the economic ladder if their parents had low socio- economic status. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with Erin Currier, manager of the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts, about why the U.S. ranked worst for economic mobility among the countries in the study.

For the top brass of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could be abstract. But at a classified security briefing in spring 2010, it suddenly became quite real. "We can turn your computer into a brick," government officials reportedly told the startled executives.

The killing of a top Iranian scientist last week will likely complicate efforts to restart the Iran nuclear deal. Will Iran really throw out nuclear weapons inspectors?

Captain Underpants has once again topped the list of most-challenged books. Author Dav Pilkey says his tighty-whities-clad hero teaches kids a healthy lesson about questioning authority.

Two days of congressional testimony from the country's top military leaders has put the battle for that narrative on center stage.

NASA should work toward a new space telescope that could view small planets around distant stars with the potential to host life, expert panel says