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The NFL continues to produce drama on and off the field while the Ball family does the same for the NBA.

The call-and-response singing and drumming tradition known as Plena brings "a little joy" to the hurricane-damaged Calle Loiza neighborhood in San Juan.

Alas, you wouldn't want to eat this native of Western Australia — Spinifex grasses are often so hard and spiky that scientists say collecting samples can be painful.

Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab joins NPR's Steve Inskeep to talk about the Trump administration's plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The video raises a central question, given that much of the area is under a mandatory evacuation order and curfew: Who's going to get that mail?

Brian McGuire, former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, discusses the politics of the shutdown and what moves the GOP might be planning next.

If lawmakers fail to reach a deal, that would mean the second shutdown in less than a month. And there are still a lot of big issues to work through — including immigration.

One of the central issues of the shutdown battle is the Children's Health Insurance Program. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Alabama CHIP Director Cathy Caldwell about the program, which covers 9 million low-income kids across the U.S.

A bipartisan group of senators have dubbed themselves the "Common Sense Caucus" and are taking credit for ending the brief government shutdown. But in a polarized Capitol, how much influence will these centrist lawmakers have on their leaders?

The State of the Union tradition of inviting extraordinary Americans to sit with the first lady began under Ronald Reagan in 1982. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California — Santa Barbara, who is also a political science professor at Citrus College, about the tradition.