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Earlier this year, Pentagon workers were told they could face up to 22 furlough days because of budget cuts; the number is now 6 days. Some 650,000 civilian defense workers began taking furlough days on July 8.

Correspondent Susan Stamberg gathers recommendations for the season's best books from booksellers Rona Brinlee, Daniel Goldin and Lucia Silva. Their selections include comics about philosophy, novels about building families, and a box set that dives into the process of writing.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the relatively low profile the United States has kept in Liberia during that country's recent civil strife.

The best reads of 2018. We’ll hear picks from book critics and an independent bookseller.

For the first time ever, viewers in the U.S. can vote for their favorite act in the lavish international spectacle that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Our critic shares his top 10 songs.

CHOCOLATE WHOPPERSFrom, ‘Maida Heatter’s Cookies’, Publisher, Andrews McMeelYield: 15 Tremendous Cookies2 ounces (2 squares) unsweetened chocolate6 ounces…

Heidi Brown's Army uniform is decorated with one small star, which marks her as a brigadier general. But at this point in her career, "gender now shuts the door for me," she says.

Robert traveled to the 6th Congressional District in Southern Ohio ...site of a hotly contested race between an incumbent Freshman Republican, Frank Cremeans, and Ted Strickland, who held the seat from 1992 to 1994. The balance of the House of Representatives could be at stake in next Tuesday's election. This race is widely regarded as a bellwether race in a bellwether state for determining which party will control the next Congress.

07/09/15 - Syndicated food columnist Linda Gassenheimer, Special wine correspondent Fred Tasker and WLRN hosts Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman interview…

His proposed "great wall" gets all the attention. But his plan would mean record spending on top of what's already record spending on border enforcement.

The former Illinois congressman reflects on confronting the "fanaticism of the hardcore" of his own party. Kinzinger served on the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

Another 64 cases of hepatitis A were reported to the state last week, bringing the total number of reported cases this year to 2,609, according to state...

A top State Department official wants to unleash the power of Twitter, Facebook and other services to crowdsource the fight to control the world's nuclear weapons.

Tony Podesta, brother of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, blamed "right-wing media" for his decision to leave his namesake firm. The firm assisted Paul Manafort's work in Ukraine.

There's a lot of talking going on in Philadelphia this week, as Democrats host their national convention. So with a lot of promises being bandied about,...

Whether you're looking for exciting dishes to serve at a summer cookout, or something to help you get out of a cooking rut, NPR's Books We Love project has suggestions for you.

In the U.S. today we use hashtags to hash out everything in our lives, from women’s rights to cancelled flights. But in Cuba, socialism has kept social…

Potential Tropical Cyclone 6 is close to becoming the season's sixth named tropical storm in the Caribbean, and may cause direct effects over a portion of Florida over the upcoming weekend.

The judges ruled it was unconstitutional and infringed on the government's responsibility to preserve Spain's cultural patrimony. Catalan lawmakers approved the ban in 2010, citing animal cruelty.