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Lawmakers pushed a decision on buying personal protective equipment to next week's special session.

Hardcore Starbucks fans eagerly await the day the coffee company gives out limited-edition holiday cups. The union organizing Starbucks workers hope those same customers will help support their cause.

Plas Johnson, the saxophonist behind "The Pink Panther Theme," has died at 94. We remember the Hollywood session legend whose playing shaped decades of music.

The 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature kicks off Jan. 22. With Gov. Kate Brown's re-election and new supermajorities in both chambers, Democrats will bring an ambitious agenda to the Capitol.

The US women's softball team won a gold medal at the Sydney Olympics Tuesday in the hardest possible fashion. As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, the team was considered unbeatable after a two-year winning streak of 112 games. But it lost three straight games in the early round of competition, nearly putting it out of medal contention. The US then fought back and swept the three teams -- China, Australia and Japan -- it lost to earlier in the tournament.

Steve Young of Vermont Public Radio reports four state legislators lost their seats yesterday when they lost the primary election. The lawmakers were republicans that voted for a controversial law granting gay couples almost all the rights of marriage. After the bill passed a number of groups mobilized to repeal it...and to encourage voters to remove those who supported the measure.

The Malaysian East Coast Rail Link is a successful feat so far compared to some other Chinese investments in the country — even if it has blown past deadlines and budgets.

In interviews in villages on Venezuela's northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.

NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.

Oregon lawmakers had sought to ensure a new law limiting capital punishment had no impact on old cases. A recent Washington County ruling suggests they failed.