Powerhouse names lingered around the top of Billboard’s albums chart all summer: Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen -- crowding out new entries. But this week brings an embarrassment of riches.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, which helps members get affordable mortgages, says its 3.7 million members must vote or risk losing membership — and the financial benefits.
The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.
During a town hall outside Miami, Trump touted his record on the economy, yet called Jan. 6 a "day of love" and would not back off false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was prepped for surgery to donate his vital organs. The surgery was stopped, and the man is alive three years later.
Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the Indigenous groups that fought to create it.
With only weeks to a divisive election it can be hard to talk politics. Polarization can damage our relationships and our health. We have strategies to reduce election stress, starting with ourselves.
Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.
The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research on the institutional roots of national wealth and poverty. They will split the prize money of 11 million Swedish krona or about $1.058 million.
