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NPR's Mary Louise speaks to author Simon Winchester about how precision in technology has developed since the Industrial Age to today's cutting-edge developments occurring around the world.

A provision now in the House's bill would help agricultural groups set up association health plans. Such plans, favored alternatives of the GOP, aim to reduce health care costs for small groups.

For many teachers, working with students is more than a full-time job. Here are three educators coming up with innovative solutions to the classroom challenges they face.

A man's father slipped on peacock droppings. The peacock was in a tree so he cut the tree down. The Guardian reports that the man faces a fine of up to $10,000 for taking it down without a permit.

A volcanic eruption on Hawaii's Big Island has spewed lava and toxic gases into residential neighborhoods, days after the shift in volcanic activity first prompted evacuations.

Steve Inskeep talks to New York Times correspondent Thomas Erdbrink about what happens if the Trump administration re-imposes sanctions on Iran. Such a move could unravel the nuclear deal.

President Trump has long been critical of the agreement. Rachel Martin talks to Robert Malley, the lead White House negotiator on the deal under President Obama.

But Cyrus Vance Jr.'s probe of Eric Schneiderman is complicated: Schneiderman has been investigating Vance for his involvement in the decision not to prosecute producer Harvey Weinstein.

The convicted coal baron won't be the W.Va. GOP Senate nominee, losing to the state attorney general. An outsider won the GOP contest in Indiana, and Ohio Democrats chose Richard Cordray for governor.

In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive in Africa and transported on a slave ship to America.