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As an impeachment inquiry against President Trump has accelerated, his rhetoric has gotten more heated. An analysis shows he's using even stronger words about his political opponents than before.

More than 200 years ago, a scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was unrolled and pasted onto cardboard, even though it had writing on the back. New imagery shows some of what's hidden.

Who's who in the recently-released texts between government officials working on the U.S.-Ukraine relationship? And what do they mean for the impeachment inquiry?

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former Iraqi Foreign Minister and Kurdish leader Hoshyar Zebari about repercussions of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria for the Kurdish region of Iraq.

The state of Washington is moving to aggressively thin forests to reduce the worsening wildfire risk. The initiative signals a rare truce between loggers and environmentalists.

President Trump announced he'll lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey now that a cease-fire in northern Syria is in place. That deal has paved the way for the Russian military to enter the region.

A murder investigation is underway in Britain after the discovery of 39 bodies in a container truck. The dead are thought to be migrants smuggled into the country from continental Europe.

Unions and their supporters around the country are assessing whether the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors is a sign of renewed labor power.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with E.J. Dionne of the Brookings Institution and Mary Katharine Ham of CNN about this week's developments in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

U.S. employers added 136,000 jobs in September — a sign of continued resilience in the labor market amid growing signals that the economy is losing steam. The jobless rate was the lowest since 1969.

Pain and Glory is the latest from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. It tells the story of an aging filmmaker unable to make films — to tell his stories — until the past nudges him forward.

The new action movie is about a black police officer straddling two worlds. It's also the British actress' first leading role. She explains how she prepared for a deeply American story.

Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General for the intelligence community, briefed the House Intelligence committee as part of the impeachment probe.

After William Taylor testified the president leveraged military assistance and a White House meeting in return for political investigations in Ukraine, Republicans largely stuck behind the president.

A lot of people believe, when switching to electric vehicles, they would miss the smell of gasoline. The carmaker claims gasoline ranks more popular than the smell of wine and cheese.

He is a finalist in an international braille literacy competition. The Braille Challenge encourages blind and visually impaired kids to go to college, develop job skills and socialize.

Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Scott Rigell, Republican of Virginia, who says he will vote for the Senate plan to end up the government shutdown and increase the debt ceiling.

The actress spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel about playing the icon in BBC America's Burton and Taylor. The movie follows the preposterously famous '60s and '70s couple as they reunited for a 1983 Broadway production of Private Lives.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the 2013 class of nominees. Sixteen acts have made the cut, and the run the gamut from 90s grunge gods Nirvana and rapper LL Cool J to singer Linda Ronstadt and folk singer Cat Stevens — now known as Yusuf Islam.

The film follows Beat Generation notables — Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr — as college students in the 1940s. NPR's Bob Mondello says it may succeed where other movies about the poets have failed. (Recommended)

The government shutdown should end tonight and America should be able to pay its bills. Both the House and Senate will vote this evening on legislation to achieve those goals. For months, President Obama has said he would not negotiate with Republicans in Congress about Obamacare or the federal deficit until those goals were met. After weeks of stalemate and more than two weeks into a partial shut down of the federal government, the GOP met his demands.

The British artist Banksy is holding a month-long show on the streets of New York. Every day, the reclusive street artist posts a photo of his latest piece and fans locate the piece through social media. But they have to find the art fast — it's often destroyed within hours of being discovered.

Patients fall in just a small fraction of hospital visits. But safety experts say bad falls should be called "never events" and shouldn't ever happen inside hospitals. There's a difference of opinion over the best way to reduce hazardous falls.

Applying to college is stressful at the best of times. But technical flaws in the online Common Application, used by hundreds of colleges, have sparked panic among some high school seniors. With deadlines approaching, some schools are making backup plans — like a return to mail or even faxed applications.

Economists are trying to figure out how much uncertainty over the shutdown has hurt the economy and the potential effects of a solution that essentially "kicks the can down the road." Some say this lurching from one short-term fix to the next simply puts a drag on the economy.