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A divided state appeals court this week upheld a nearly $6.4 million verdict in a case filed against cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA by the widow of a...

Retired economics professor Alexander Van der Bellen edged out anti-immigrant populist candidate Norbert Hofer by just more than 31,000 votes — 0.6 percent of the vote.

Munich kicked off this year's Oktoberfest Saturday, beginning festivities in which the city expects to host 6 million visitors. For the first time, beer prices are above 10 euros per liter.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny plays the puzzle with NPR Puzzle Master Will Shortz and listener Eric Feinstein from Ossining, New York.

"There is very little, if any, good news about housing," says David M. Blitzer, who oversees the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report.

Fernand is the 6th named system of the season, and it will not be a threat to land, likely staying as a tropical storm during its lifetime.

Interceptjournalist James Risen says new documents show how Iran has embedded itself in the politics of its neighbor — and that the late Gen. Soleimani oversaw Iran's proxy wars in Iraq and Syria.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess about her reporting on efforts to possibly change how we categorize hurricanes as they become more powerful.

Researchers say they've determined that a skull discovered in 1929 likely belonged to an individual who was killed in a tsunami 6,000 years ago.

The magnitude 7.6 temblor prompted fears that a tsunami might strike Vanuatu and the French territory of New Caledonia. But within hours, local officials said the worst of the danger had passed.

A deal for a new park on the site of Inter Miami FC’s stadium was reached July 6. The City of Fort Lauderdale and the team had agreed to a plan where Inter Miami would pay for a public park when the team moved in. But it had been delayed for years.

Starting Monday, commercial space companies can only launch between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Bongino's tenure was at times tumultuous, including a clash with Justice Department leadership over the Epstein files. But it also involved the arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bomber case.

2: Jazz Saxophonist, STAN GETZ. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Getz got his start playing with Woody Herman's band. He later went on to form his own quartet. He has worked with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton. In the early 1960's, Getz became the first American musician closely identified with the bossa nova movement. He died in 1991. (REBROADCAST FROM 6

2: Trumpeter and Singer, JACK SHELDON. For many years he was bandleader and sidekick for Merv Griffin's talkshow. SHELDON has been involved with some of the great names of jazz: he sang with Benny Goodman, was a childhood friend of Chet Baker's, and played burlesque with Lenny Bruce. He has a new record of standards: "On My Own" (Concord Records). (REBROADCAST from 6

Liane Hansen speaks with zoologist Desmond Morris about his ew 6-part mini-series, "The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human pecies." The series is currently being aired Sunday nights on cable TV's "The earning Channel" throughout the month of January. A companion book also has een written to accompany the series. (Crown Publishers, Inc.) In both, Morris elves into the biology and evolution of human behavior.

2: Professor of Religion at Princeton University ELAINE PAGELS. She has written four books including "The Gnostic Gospels" (which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award). PAGELS most recent book is "The Origin of Satan" (Random House 1995). (REBROADCAST from 6

A jury in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho has found the leader of a white supremacist group, and his former employees are liable for more than 6-million dollars in an attack on a woman and her son outside the group's headquarters. The case involves Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, his former chief of staff and two security guards. Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers about the verdict and the lawsuit.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on decision-making by state election officials across the country about which of the two Reform Party candidates to recognize on their presidential election ballots. Both Patrick Buchanan and John Hagelin claim to be the real Reform Party candidate. This dispute -- which has some 12-point-6 Million dollars in Federal funds ((ed: *NOT* "Federal matching funds")) riding alongside it -- will wind up in courts across the country before election day.

Independent filmmaker JOSEPH VASQUEZ. His movie, "Hangin' With The Homeboys," was a semi-autobiographical movie about Vasquez' home neighborhood in the South Bronx. He won a 1991 Sundance Film Festival award for the screenplay, which he wrote in three days. VASQUEZ died earlier this week of complications related to the AIDS virus. He had recently finished work on a new film, "Manhattan Meringue." (REBROADCAST from 6/