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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance served in the Marine Corps. But unlike many Republican war veterans, he is a leading voice against U.S. military intervention abroad.

Shyamala Gopalan figures large in Vice President Harris' life story — and her motivation to break barriers in politics.

Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. Now he's making AI weapons the Pentagon is buying for itself and also sending to Ukraine.

The Park Fire close to Chico, Calif., is now the largest in the U.S. On Monday, a man who was arrested under suspicion of starting the blaze is set to be arraigned.

A Maryland county will be the first in the nation to offer pickleball as a varsity sport in its high schools this fall.

The Olympics opening ceremony gets underway Friday on the River Seine. NPR's Michel Martin talks to the mayor of Paris’s central district about how the event is transforming the city.

The 3rd Annual Adaptive Golf Open is underway in Kansas as disabled golfers from 32 states and 11 countries vy for a championship. The field includes A 20 year old Utah golfer, paralyzed from a ski accident, who’s back defending the championship he won last year in the seated impairment category

The four major U.S. automakers — GM, Ford, Stellantis and Tesla — all reported earnings this week and saw their stocks decline. The auto industry is at a "Darwinian" inflection point, says one CEO.

Three men behind the 9/11 attacks have agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Liz Miller, whose father was killed on Sept. 11 when she was six, shares her view on the outcome.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps trying, and failing, to get grizzly bears taken off the endangered species list. Some worry that frustration over this could hurt efforts to protect the bears.