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Voters in El Salvador are electing a new president Sunday. The former Marxist guerrillas — or the FMLN, as they're known — have put forward a relatively young journalist, Mauricio Funes, as their candidate. He's running against the former head of the national police, Rodrigo Ávila, of the ruling, right-wing ARENA party.

Suicide attacks in northwestern Iraq killed at least 250 people Tuesday. The attackers drove fuel tankers into a residential area where members of the Yazidi sect of Islam live. One of the villages is under curfew, allowing rescue workers who are still pulling bodies out from under the rubble to work more freely.

Former referee Tim Donaghy has pleaded guilty to felony charges for causing a betting scandal that devastated the NBA. Donaghy faces a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced. He was released on a $250,000 bond.

Legendary baseball player Willie Mays is revered not only for his athletic ability, but also for his deep passion for America's favorite pastime. James Hirsch, author of the authorized biography Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, describes Mays' career, from his years in the Negro Leagues, to his 1954 World Series triumph and beyond.

Polls are changing and strategies are shifting as Obama and McCain prepare to square off in their third and final debate three weeks before Election Day. NPR political editor Ken Rudin and listeners weigh in on what they expect to hear from the candidates on Wednesday night.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts the exhibit.

One of President Biden's final moves in office is aimed at shoring up critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.

David Saltzberg makes sure those equations splashed all over CBS's hugely popular sitcom make sense. Saltzberg reviews scripts that arrive with unfinished dialogue and brackets reading, "Insert Science Here."

In his essay this week, NPR's Scott Simon writes about how an increased focus on analytics has slowed down the pace of baseball.

Questioning the official count of how a battle happened 400 years ago has gotten historian Sulak Sivaraksa looking at 15 years in prison under Thailand's lese-majeste law.

The president offered a fix for people whose insurance coverage has been canceled because it didn't meet the minimum standards of the federal health law. But will insurers follow through? And even if they want to, will state regulators let them?

State insurance regulators learned recently that an electronic system most insurers will use to submit their policies for state and federal approvals won't be ready for testing next month. The unexpected problem could delay work on the exchanges by three months.

The Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013 was one of the deadliest incidents for wildland firefighters in American history. Nineteen of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died — many inside their fire shelters.

If there is a sleeping dog for Republicans to probe in her record, it is one of the 12 cases she argued during her years in the solicitor general's office.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Thom Shanker, co-author of the book Age of Danger, about the threats artificial intelligence poses to national security.

The title track of Kim Kashkashian's new CD, Neharot, Neharot, is a dark, impressionistic portrait of war and mourning by Israeli composer Betty Olivero. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel was "blown away."

NPR's Scott Simon shares the story of Lucio Arreola, a father of three who's recovering from a heart transplant and whose family recorded a song for him using his own heartbeat.

Janet Hamlin was the only courtroom sketch artist allowed at the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals in 2006. Her work has been collected in a new book, Sketching Guantanamo — and she tells NPR's Renee Montagne that getting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nose right ended up being a challenge.

Women and Children First has weathered more than three decades of competition from chain stores and online booksellers to become one of the largest feminist bookstores in the U.S. Now, the Chicago store is among the few of its kind left standing — and it's on the hunt for new ownership.

The high-priced star's first year of U.S. Major League Soccer did not work out well for him or his team. Now, he's returning on loan in the middle of the season during the debut of a tell-all book that casts Beckham in an unfavorable light.

The Coast Guard has seen a spike in the number of Cubans trying to sail to Florida. The cause, it says, is a false rumor that the U.S. will soon change its policy toward Cubans who reach U.S. shores.

Florida banned visitors from nursing homes in March to guard against spreading the coronavirus. After six months, the state has finally allowed visits to facilities for residential care.

Tunisians face soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples, threatening to turn discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil.

The nation's most populous state — with an economy that is the fifth largest in the world — has been struggling with the rising prices of most goods and services.

Michael Son has driven one of London's famous black cabs since 1965. But it was a recent encounter with a passenger that led to minor internet fame for the 80-year-old.