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Hydrogen power may be in the distant future for America, but it's making the wheels of Jon Spallino's Honda zip down southern California's freeways now.

Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson has spent more than 20 years writing a cycle of plays that chronicle black life in 20th-century America, decade by decade. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, the playwright discusses how he first found the language of the black experience in blues legend Bessie Smith.

Despite an atmosphere of increased security and monitoring technology, it's never been easier to assume another identity -- at least, for a little while. Filmmakers and writers are finding fodder in the ability to easily diguise oneself online.

The Los Angeles police force is notoriously understaffed -- compared to New York City, it has half the number of cops per resident. So the LAPD is increasingly turning to a corps of middle-aged men and women, who essentially volunteer for duty. Unlike reservists in other cities, being a reservist in Los Angeles is "full duty," with uniforms, guns and confrontations with bad guys. NPR's Mandalit del Barco recently spent a day with reservists at the Los Angeles Police Academy as they trained to keep their policing skills sharp -- see photos of their training.

Tim Borland ran 63 marathons in as many days to call attention to ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), a rare degenerative children's disease. His quest began in California on Labor Day, took him to 26 states, and ended at the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

A new poll finds that in 17 battleground states, President Bush is gaining support among rural voters, who are credited with giving him a winning margin in 2000. Bush leads Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry 55 percent to 42 percent, according to the poll. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Mark Warner isn't saying whether he'll jump into the Democratic race for president in 2008, as many expect him to, but the former Virginia governor has some advice about the war in Iraq for the next commander-in-chief.

On Sunday, Holtville, Calif., wrapped up its 76th Annual Carrot Festival. The farming community near the U.S.-Mexico border likes to brag that it is the “carrot capital of the world.”

American consumers overwhelmingly prefer white-meat chicken. That means a whole lot of leftover legs for U.S. chicken producers to walk off. Why do we like chicken breasts so much — and how can we cross over to the dark side?

A year after Hurricane Katrina, many homeowners in Gulf Coast still haven't received insurance money or government grants for rebuilding. Much of the reconstruction work in Louisiana and Mississippi is being done by faith-based volunteers.

President Bush defends the U.S. mission in Iraq, saying that calls for American troops to leave the country are premature. The president warned that the situation would only worsen without U.S. troops -- and that "chaos in Iraq would be very unsettling in the region."

Whatever happens in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, it is the superdelegates nationwide who will likely decide who gets the Democratic presidential nomination. Three committed superdelegates from the Keystone State shared their views on the race.

Mark Regev tells NPR that Israel's ground operation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip could "end tomorrow — if we can be assured that the civilian population in the southern part of our country will no longer be on the receiving end of these terrible Hamas rockets."

As voting began Tuesday, poll workers were getting ready for what is expected to be record turnout throughout the day. Workers in Pittsburgh; Clermont County, Ohio; Raritan Township, N.J.; Chelsea, Mich.; and Roanoke, Va., talk about how things are going in their precincts.

A class action lawsuit could upend the way home realtors are compensated in America.

Florida, and other British territories outside the 13 colonies that rebelled against Britain, have used the "14th colony" nickname to describe themselves, historians told us.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kristina Kvien who, as the Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, is the top American official on the ground in Kyiv.

For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.

Tourism in big Western states rely disproportionately on visitors who drive. Businesses in Montana fear fewer people will come with gas prices so high and inflation eating into travel budgets.

There were calls for the prime minister to resign following a report on parties his government threw when events like that were banned because of COVID. Johnson meets Tuesday with Ukraine's president.

It's a busy time in Pennsylvania, with appearances from President Biden and former President Trump, underscoring the state's importance in the upcoming midterm elections.

As the death toll soars, the cold continues and rescue teams dig at the rubble — the window for saving people following the massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria is closing.

New York City welcomes the U.S. women's national soccer team after their World Cup win with a ticker tape parade on Wednesday.

Electric vehicle owners who live in cities often don’t have garages or driveways — so they can’t charge their cars at home. And public chargers are in short supply.

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.