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The economy is a top voting issue for many Americans. Four "American Indicators," people reflecting different sectors of the economy in different parts of the country, talk about their politics.

Earlier this month, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 65 years after its release. We revisit her conversation with NPR's Scott Detrow.

o first, the serious stuff. The people who keep track of how truly rotten traffic in the Bay Area can be have come out with their annual analysis of where we spend the most time jammed up watching everyone else’s tail lights. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s congestion study, released in late October, has an air … Continue reading The 10 Best Places to Watch the Bay Area’s Worst Traffic Congestion →

A new NPR poll shows Americans want congressional leaders to compromise. Peru declares a 30-day national emergency. Israel's longest-serving prime minister is poised to return to office.

A new cookbook offers kitchen techniques that reduce physical exertion. It aims to make home cooking accessible again for those with chronic back pain.

The Lee bothers, Matt and Ted, have written two cookbooks about Southern cuisine, but now they've turned their attention to a more specific region: Charleston, the city they grew up in. Their new book contains recipes and stories from a seafood-centric community with a rich culinary history.

A new report by WalletHub measured how much people pay in property, income and sales tax in proportion to the amount of money they make.

President Trump is threatening a government shutdown if he doesn't get funding to build his border wall. In a meeting with Democratic leaders, he said, 'tremendous amounts of wall have been built.'

As schools get the green light to reopen, the form their teaching will take will vary widely, sometimes even within the same district.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana about whether he will vote to convict ex-President Donald Trump on the single charge of "incitement of insurrection."