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Former NFL all-star quarterback Brett Favre says he has Parkinson's disease. Favre played 20 seasons in the NFL, mostly with the Green Bay Packers. He retired in 2011. Favre won the Super Bowl and was a three-time NFL MVP. He also had his share of concussions and said he had often had memory loss.

Retired NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre reveals he has Parkinson's disease

Favre, 54, revealed the diagnosis while testifying before a U.S. House committee about his role in a controversy over millions of dollars of misspent welfare funds in his home state of Mississippi.

The Story Behind the Shot Heard Round the World

On Oct. 3, 1951, one of Major League Baseball's greatest moments took place. In the bottom of the 9th inning, the New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League Pennant. Batter Bobby Thomson's three-run homer became legendary. Deborah Amos talks to writer Joshua Prager, who reveals that the Giants had an unusual home-field advantage.

Susan Rice Talks Of Balancing Career And Motherhood, Reflects On Benghazi

"What bothers me more than anything is that we lost four Americans," the former U.N. ambassador says of the controversy surrounding Benghazi in an interview about her new memoir Tough Love.

Why Australian Open livestreams look like Wii tennis — and what it means for sports

The Australian Open's animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put Simpsons on the football field and superheroes on ice skates.

A white water tower with an orange pumpkin covers the word Morton. Morton, Illinois prides itself on producing tons of pumpkins each year. Most of them are pureed and canned at the Libby's plant, which has been in the town for nearly 100 years.

This bite-sized Midwest town produces almost all of the canned pumpkin in the U.S.

The pumpkin pie Americans enjoy each Thanksgiving often comes from pumpkins grown near Morton, Illinois. The region accounts for more than 95% of canned pumpkin in the U.S.

Contract breach or banditry? Inside the collapse of the Taliban's oil deal with China

Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.

Billion-Dollar Gamble: How A 'Singular Hero' Helped Start A New Field In Physics

In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the National Science Foundation had ever funded.

Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, is pictured at Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Thursday. He and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin asked a judge to void Democrat-drawn legislative maps in their latest legal filing Thursday, while Democrats have asked that the case be dismissed or adjourned until after they approve changes to the maps at the end of the month.

Illinois Lawmakers Schedule Aug. 31 Session To Redraw Legislative Maps In Light Of Census Data

Lawmakers will head back to the Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 31, to consider changes to the legislative maps that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law earlier this year.

Trump Says He'll Lift U.S. Sanctions On Turkey Now That Cease-Fire Is In Place

President Trump announced he'll lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey now that a cease-fire in northern Syria is in place. That deal has paved the way for the Russian military to enter the region.

Sen. Warren says banking panel should focus on Trump's attacks on Fed independence

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, about Stephen Miran's nomination to the Fed and the central bank's independence.

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