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It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

Many transplant centers require people with alcohol-related liver disease to remain sober for half a year, before becoming eligible for the waiting list for a liver. But this thinking may be changing.

Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states, including North Carolina, cast their ballots in midterm elections. He's backed U.S. Rep. Ted Budd here.

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

Republicans are lambasting Democrats' attempts at uniform ethics standards at the Supreme Court as partisan politics. It's just the latest chapter in a decline in national unity.

Ed Bradley, one of journalism's best-known broadcasters, died Thursday in New York. He was 65 and was suffering from leukemia. Nightline correspondent Vicky Mabrey remembers the life and career of Bradley, a correspondent for CBS' 60 minutes since 1981.

The demands by student activists face what could be an insurmountable obstacle: security fears in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.

The Office writer B.J. Novak expands his scope from Dunder Mifflin to the range of human experience in a new short story collection. We've got an exclusive excerpt — with readings by Novak himself, Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson.

Writers from across the public radio map pick the best songs they've heard this year.

The Democratic convention seemed to have more enthusiasm, better speeches and greater emotion than its Republican counterpart. But Charlotte is over, and bad economic numbers are the new reality.

Also this week, a profile of plus-sized model Tess Holliday, algorithms in plain(ish) English, and suicide clusters in Palo Alto, Calif.

In 2008, Democratic caucusgoers launched Barack Obama as a legitimate national contender, and voters later turned out in record numbers to put him in the White House. But now many of his past supporters are wary and worried, and he's locked in a dead-heat battle with GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

Host Debbie Elliott speaks with Richard Sutch and Susan Carter about numbers that tell the story of America. They've edited a new five-volume work, Historical Statistics of the United States. Today, Sutch and Carter discuss what the numbers tell us about the role of the U.S. Post Office in westward expansion.

The book by veteran journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is a rushing torrent of anecdotes and recollections. A reader may plunge in at any point and pull up a pail of Trump at full tilt.

Global leaders are negotiating about how to cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. Scientists say every passing day, and every tenth of a degree, makes a big difference.

The opioid epidemic continued to surge in 2022, killing record numbers of Americans, but help may be on the way in the form of more aid to communities and major reforms in opioid addiction treatment.

Republicans in Congress are likely to pass their tax bill this week, raising questions about House Speaker Paul Ryan's future and what, if anything, will happen next year

According to NPR's general-election ratings, Clinton starts with a big advantage over Trump based on history and demography. But we also find at least two paths for him to win — and two ties.

The departure of the Justice Department's number two leader has been expected for months. Rosenstein has described himself as someone dealt a bad hand, one he played the best he could.

Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. The cost could be much higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it all.