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Gov. Bill Lee declined to grant a reprieve Monday amid uncertainty about whether the implantable defibrillator will shock Byron Black's heart when the lethal drug takes effect.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jean Lee, the former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Associated Press, and Georgetown University's Angela Stent, about the upcoming meeting between Kim Jong Un and Putin.

For years, disabled passengers have complained about Amtrak and its poor service — that it's too hard for them to ride the train. A new federal report looks at its efforts to get better.

This trio from Houston, Texas makes trance-inducing music heavily inspired by 1960s and '70s funk and soul from, of all places, Thailand.

Some of the All Things Considered staff whose voices you don't always hear on air share their favorite stories that aired on the show this year.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson's 2012 compensation was mostly the payout of a retention package, but she still would have made close to a million without it.

Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS' Face the Nation, retires Sunday after 46 years at the network. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says Schieffer is the last among a vanished breed of traditional news anchors.

It's distortionary. It's regressive. And right now it only benefits a sliver of taxpayers and nonprofits. It's time to talk about the charitable deduction.

Just 10 people were major donors to the former Rhode Island governor's quixotic campaign. We asked them why.

The president's press secretary said a plan the White House is pushing would mean taxing goods from Mexico 20 percent to pay for the wall. That would mean American consumers would foot the bill.

At Midsummer, some believe the veils between the worlds part and magic's hold on us grows stronger. For the solstice, reviewer Bobbi Dumas recommends five books with her favorite mix: love and magic.

ANALYSIS: The president was brisk and confident during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. He also managed to avoid a remarkable array of issues that could have proved problematic. But he hasn't been nearly as adept at the less-dramatic business of dealing with Congress and the media.

Saxophone player Benny Golson played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and wrote music for the TV shows M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible.

Bass improviser Richard Davis, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes and saxophonists Charles Gayle and Peter Brötzmann are among the notable musicians we lost this year.

The streaming platform is free this weekend for anybody who has an Apple ID. I'm not here to tell you to pick this service over any other — but I can offer a little advice on how to maximize the next few days.

Eight of the top 10 states with the highest suicide rates are in the Mountain West. Grand Junction, Colo., has launched an ambitious effort starting in the schools to try to address the problem.

What happens when a teacher's union tries to edit history for its students?

Welcome back to The Checkup, our weekly series on how health care is changing in Maryland. This is our final segment in the series. For seven months,…

'Seasonal Work' is twelve mysteries packed into one book, with the surprises and suspense that have won Laura Lippman publishing awards for twenty-five years. Most focus on kids, marriages and families in Baltimore. We ask her how--and why--she crams so much in.

We’ll go On the Record with WYPR Digital Content Director Jamyla Krempel to go behind the scenes of Wavelength, a new podcast on public radio’s history in Baltimore. Plus, reconnecting with the community activist interviewed on YPR's first morning show.