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Ben Sasse, the last Republican freshman to address the Senate this year, said this: "No one in this body thinks the Senate is laser-focused on the most pressing issues facing the nation. No one."

Twitter changed its "favorite" icon from a yellow star to a red heart. Twitter users aren't loving it, but NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam predicts it's just a matter of time.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Jenni Harrington, a fifth generation Nebraskan farmer, about the suspension of the permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run through her town.

Airs Nov. 2-Nov. 12Cheryl-Ann Milsap reads a travelogue of Glacier National Park and the Cascades in the early 1900s. Rinehard was the author of short…

In her new memoir, actor Leah Remini writes about growing up in the Church of Scientology, becoming one of its prized celebrities, and her family's eventual, wrenching decision to leave it behind.

The leaders of China and Taiwan will meet in Singapore on Saturday, the first such meeting since the end of China's civil war in 1949. It comes just a couple of months before Taiwan's election.

Assemblyman Marc Levine tells The Marin Independent Journal that more people might vote if they can take selfies during the process.

Public schools in Mississippi have been underfunded for years. Yesterday voters said no to an initiative that sought to guarantee an "adequate and efficient system of public schools."

The University of California, Merced, said the suspect was shot by police and later died from his injuries. Two of the stabbing victims were flown to a nearby hospital.

Faced with a tragic situation, Trooper Nathan Bradley says he stalled for time — to find the kids' nearest relatives, and to figure out how to salvage their Halloween.