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Both major candidates for president of Afghanistan claim to be leading the vote count, as stories of violence and intimidation at polling places continue to emerge. Guy Raz speaks with Jean MacKenzie, a correspondent for GlobalPost.com and the director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Afghanistan, about the election and its aftermath.

The man was touring the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula when he crossed into North Korea without authorization, according to the United Nations Command.

A new analysis finds that tens of millions of urban Americans are dealing with even hotter temperatures than their rural neighbors, as heatwaves blast the country.

After vaccines became widely available in 2021, "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters," Yale researchers say.

This spring's landmark deal to keep more water in the Colorado River will send farmers money to use less water. In the district that uses that most water there is some deep skepticism.

President Biden has endorsed plans he says will get insurance to pay for mental health care more often.

House Democrats defy a certain presidential veto and approve an Iraqi troop-withdrawal measure. The move comes hours after President Bush asked for more time in Iraq, as the White House released a report finding the Iraqi government has failed to meet several key benchmarks.

Beverly Sills, the most popular American opera singer of recent decades, has died. Entertainer Carol Burnett shares her memories of her professional relationship and friendship with Sills.

Middle-class families are increasingly feeling the bite of the Alternative Minimum Tax. It was originally meant to target rich tax dodgers. How are families coping with the AMT?

For more than a year before they moved in to make arrests, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies tracked the men accused of plotting to attack the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey.

Chad Widmer, a senior aquarist at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California, talks about the pervasive creatures, and how, in normal conditions, jellies are good.

A young award-winning novelist who retrained as a war crimes researcher to document Russian atrocities and preserve Ukrainian culture has met a tragic end.

ABC plans to air a report Friday night revealing more about the phone records — and, perhaps, the clients — of the so-called D.C. Madam. Political watchers have been anxiously waiting for the report. Here's some advice on what an official might say if revealed as one of the madam's clients.

Six of eight federal prosecutors fired by the Bush administration testify before House and Senate committees. Congressional Democrats are looking into allegations that the attorneys were fired for political reasons.

This project was motivated by the climate crisis: "We are heading into a very, very dangerous place," Curtis says. The story explores the environmental decisions one generation makes for the next.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Bob Hamilton, head of Eurasia Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, about drone attacks. The Kremlin blames Kyiv — while Ukraine hasn't claimed responsibility.

Several state GOP party organizations are hurting for funds. In Colorado, the extreme right-wing views of the party chief have driven away long time donors.

The disturbances at Donald Trump's rally in Chicago last night were the culmination of tension and incidents of violence that have been building around the Republican front runner's campaign.

James McBride's latest novel starts with a shooting: A broken down preacher shoots the local drug dealer, who dodges at the last minute, losing an ear — and kicking off a chain of consequences.

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's oddball new novel follows a newly unemployed scientist, lovesick for her former mentor — but convinced of her own worth and her need for a life full of beauty.

Nancy McKinley mixes screwball humor with social criticism in a collection of interlocking stories about two women who work at a mall in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Claire North's new book starts with a doctor witnessing an atrocity in Africa in 1884, but becomes a spy thriller, a horror story, a supernatural mystery and an indictment of capitalism and empire.

Jeff Guinn weaves in a portrait of America's burgeoning love affair with the automobile. But his book rests heavy on the men's positive attributes, while shying away from their "unfortunate flaws."

Garth Greenwell's new story collection — like his previous novel — follows young, gay American men teaching English in Bulgaria. It's part heartbreaking, part forward-looking, and all beautiful.

In this new novel, Hilary Mantel brings her award-winning trilogy on the life of Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell to an end. And even though readers know how this story will end, it's still gripping.