NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing ...

In Charles Baxter's new novel, a small-town insurance salesman buys a blood test that can predict romantic entanglements, ...

New Yorker writer Susan Glasser says Trump is highly transactional, so billionaires may be betting on access and a seat at the table if he’s re-elected. It’s what some of them got in his first term.

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, which helps members get affordable mortgages, says its 3.7 million ...

Six candidates running for three seats on the North Idaho College trustee board disagree on the principal issues the college ...

From “Smile 2” to “Speak No Evil,” Nathan Weinbender looks at some of the newest horror movies in theaters and on digital platforms, just in time for Halloween.

It's been 20 years since the tobacco quota, which guaranteed prices for the crop, was outlawed. Since then the number of farms growing tobacco in Kentucky has shrunk by 96%.

Fethullah Gulen, an Islamist preacher widely believed to be behind a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died at age 83. He was once a powerful figure in Turkey.

Millions of Americans have already voted, and the presidential candidates are ramping up travel even more this week. We get up to date on the state of the race and the week ahead.

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was hours away from his execution last week when a judge halted the attempt. Roberson is set to testify before a state legislative committee on Monday.

Thousands of migrant workers - many of them African - have been left stranded in Lebanon - unable to afford the trip home, or worse, abandoned by their employers with no permission to leave.

To the list of bike sharing, car sharing, and house sharing, you can now add umbrella-sharing. New York is among the world cities where you might find a kiosk that allows you to rent an umbrella.