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Richie Faulkner was performing on stage when he felt something strange in his chest. It turned out to be his aorta rupturing, a condition only about one in five people survive.

A federal judge has blocked the state's controversial abortion law, finding it was designed to make it difficult for people to exercise their constitutional rights. Texas will appeal.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, who is from Zanzibar, has written 10 novels, including 1994's Paradise, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. U.S. poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law about the Supreme Court's use of emergency applications — otherwise known as the shadow docket.

Rutgers University-Camden and a local nonprofit recruited 15 barbers to help answer client questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Other barbers and hair salons are working on a similar initiative.

Employers added 194,000 jobs in September, a second month of disappointing growth. Employers added 194,000 jobs in September, down from a revised 366,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department says.

While some new voices have emerged in the campaigning, it looks like the usual parties will win. One underdog candidate got some voters on her side when she resolved a sewer problem in a Baghdad slum.

A daughter and grandson remember Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation. They talk about the challenges she faced.

The CIA is establishing a mission center that will focus on the challenges posed by a rising China. This is the strongest sign yet that CIA Director William Burns considers China his top priority.

This time last year, state revenue outlooks were tanking. Some states with high income-earners, such as California, are seeing budget surpluses like they haven't seen in decades.