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The two-time presidential candidate served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate and was a Washington institution known as a political maverick. He had an aggressive form of brain cancer.

This oral history of the Back to the Future movies offers a wealth of fascinating historical trivia — but critic Genevieve Valentine says it's carefully broad scope can mean a lack of sharp analysis.

A group of nurses from Emory Healthcare in Georgia traveled to New York City in a response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plea for help from health care workers across the country.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, but indicated that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.

Republicans are talking up healthcare amid the midterm election campaigns, but President Trump's $50 billion fund for rural healthcare won't reopen hospitals.

Despite former President Trump's historic conviction, shareholders of his social media company are vowing to stay with him no matter what.

In Jerusalem, devout Jews recite special all-night prayers ahead of Yom Kippur. And non-religious Israelis flock to the city on guided tours to get a taste of the experience.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.

JPMorgan has reached a tentative $13 billion settlement with the Department of Justice over its questionable mortgage practices leading up to the U.S. financial crisis. Renee Montagne talks to NPR business correspondent Chris Arnold about what's known so far about the terms of the deal.

The ranks at Ivy Tech Community College in Kokomo, Ind., are swelling with laid-off factory workers. One in five people in Kokomo is jobless. Many are back in school with the help of a program that pays to retrain workers hurt by foreign trade.

Linda Ellerbee, self-described "recovering journalist," has written a memoir that's also a bit of a travel guide. And it's about food, too. Ellerbee's new book is Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table.

Native American writer David Treuer bases the World War II camp for German prisoners on a real-life one that existed near the village of Bena, Minn., on the Leech Lake Reservation where he grew up.

The cuts amount to several thousand dollars in savings for Sarasota County, where libraries are well-regarded and funded with a $17 million annual budget.

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and two academic economists — Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig — share this year's Nobel Prize in economics for their work on bank runs.

Bioengineering researcher Michael Dickinson used superslow-motion video cameras to study how flies are so effective at avoiding swatters. He found that flies perform an elegant ballet with their legs — responding to threats in less than 1/10 of a second.

Harassment and the threat of violence are causing a high attrition rate among the nation’s election workforces.

Will the war at the Israel-Lebanon border stay limited? Or explodes into something much worse?

The two parties were supposed to talk today.

What are the big takeaways from this year’s summer movie season?

The pagers were used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah.

Israel is “advancing to the end of the phase of eliminating Hamas' military capabilities in the Gaza Strip."

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to young Republicans at the Republican National Convention about the future of their party and their place in it.

In 2016, Chile passed gratuidad, or "free college." As the idea gains popularity ahead of the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., Chile offers some lessons from what has happened there.

What is the SAVE America Act and how does it fit into President Trump's larger ambition to control elections? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck.