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As Veterans Day approaches, we hear from StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative about the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. armed forces, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad.

President Trump says he is talking to top congressional leaders about gun control. He told reporters, "We will see where NRA will be but we need meaningful background checks."

Black abortion rights leaders say reproductive justice and racial justice are inextricably connected.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in southwestern Missouri, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Dr. William Sistrunk, lead infectious disease physician at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo.

Inflation in August was worse than expected, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve will need to continue to lift interest rates aggressively in order to bring prices under control.

Director Adrian Lyne made his mark in Hollywood years ago with films like Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. Now he's back, with the story of a picture-perfect marriage marred by mind games.

Some who are struggling to conceive worry that the battle over abortion could put fertility treatments like IVF in jeopardy. The argument that life begins at conception could restrict such processes.

We asked Morning Edition listeners to share what their pets might be thinking about. Then NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander combed through more than 700 submissions to create a community poem.

The winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize are recognized, the Nobel Committee said, for years of protecting the fundamental rights of citizens in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The symptoms, such as headache, fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, persist or recur months after diagnosis, far more often than they do for the flu, researchers say.

Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly faces charges of sexual abuse, trafficking and racketeering on Wednesday. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Jim DeRogatis and Dream Hampton, who covered the story.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with three women about having their first child during a pandemic and what they've learned.