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Thousands of people braved the heat and long lines to honor the congressman as his body lay in state at the Capitol.

Mark Doten's debut novel has some beautiful writing in it, but critic Jason Sheehan says the book suffers from too much verbal and typographical trickery, and not enough actual story.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with David Baron, who viewed Saturday's "Ring of Fire" eclipse from the badlands of New Mexico, about why he travels the world to view these celestial phenomena.

Saturday is the winter solstice — which means it will be the longest night of the year. For many artists and poets, that thought is far from depressing: instead, night's darkness is invigorating. Filmmaker Phil Cousineau has edited a new collection on the allure of the night, and Jeff Dowd — the inspiration for "The Dude" — wrote the foreword.

JD Vance is the first veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to appear on a presidential ballot. But he isn’t a hawk; he leads a contingent of war veterans in the GOP who oppose U.S. military intervention overseas.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to end legacy preferences in college admissions. The college admissions process is under new scrutiny after the Supreme Court ended race-based affirmative action.

Conservationists in Virginia worry that overfishing of menhaden is harming the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. But state lawmakers have yet to approve funding to study the issue.

Demographics are destiny in a presidential campaign, and how the electorate has changed since 2012 will determine who wins the presidency.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their short visit still has visible, and vibrant, effects.

Israel's Druze citizens held a protest Saturday of a new law stating Israel is the national home of the Jewish people. They're among the religious minorities worried it could lead to discrimination.

While leaders of the world's seven largest economies gathered in Cornwall, England, activists for a wide range of causes staged protests in the nearby town of Falmouth.

New York City has lots of rats. Officials are trying to contain them by resorting to something many other cities have relied on for years.