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Ruth Goodman — adviser to BBC productions like Wolf Hall — digs deep into the everyday life of Tudor England in her new book. Surprisingly, Elizabethan hygiene isn't as bad as you might think.

How can adults make sure quiet kids don't get overlooked? A new book looks inside the minds of introverted kids and teens, with lessons for schools and parents.

"I'm sure that the number will be more than 14," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says. "It has been revealed that the extensions of this attack are both inside- and outside-linked."

Leaders from the European Union are meeting to consider how to tackle the refugee crisis. Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Wittig, Germany's ambassador to the U.S. about the refugee crisis in Europe.

Also: Nike ends its contract with Manny Pacquiao over remarks about gays; presidential elections are underway in Uganda; and a corroded pipe caused a huge California oil spill.

Obama will travel to Cuba in the coming weeks, a senior administration official tells NPR. It will be the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years. CNN's Patrick Oppmann in Havana has more.

"We're talking about gloves, full body cover and goggles," says a porn industry executive of the California proposal to require condom use on the set. Proponents say it's about workplace safety.

In the wake of Antonin Scalia's death, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, argues that President Obama should be the one to nominate Scalia's replacement.

Paul Clement, who clerked for Scalia on the Supreme Court and went on to argue dozens of cases before the court — and Scalia — as solicitor general, remembers the judge who died Saturday.

Reviewers who've looked at the phone say it doesn't offer anything special, except for a price that's far below anything else on the market. It's also the subject of much speculation.