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President Trump's mixed messages make it hard to see how the war with Iran will end, and it may lead to political consequences for his party in the upcoming midterm elections.

Mechanical engineer Don Gilmore has the key to a persistent musical problem: how to keep a piano perpetually in tune. The top-selling line of Story-Clark grand pianos will soon be outfitted with Gilmore's self-tuning device. Hear from Gilmore and NPR's John Ydstie.

Republicans will have an even smaller minority in the next Congress, after losing at least 20 seats in the House and seven in the Senate. This week, they've been picking new leaders, and the results are in.

All children, regardless of immigration status, have the right to a free K-12 public education. But without birthright citizenship, access to schools and colleges could get complicated.

Workers at Chrysler auto plants were walking off the job after a late-morning strike deadline passed. The United Auto Workers union has not officially announced a strike, but workers were starting to take strike assignments and picket signs.

The new film The Quiet American -- based on the Graham Greene novel -- comments on western attitudes toward Vietnam in the 1950s. Michael Caine stars. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

After nearly going extinct, the grizzly population in the Yellowstone region is 600 strong. The Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to remove them from the list of threatened species. Many conservation groups say it is too soon to de-list the bears, whose population is still fragile.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is trying to keep red states voting Republican. McCain will be looking for votes in seven swing states Monday before he returns to his home state of Arizona.

Josh Owens spent four years as a video editor and field producer for Jones' Infowars media company. "It was all about making things look cinematic," he says. Owens' memoir is The Madness of Believing.

It was a down day on Wall Street Wednesday. Investors agonizing over a faltering economy sent the stock market plunging again. The Dow wiped out all but about 127 points from Monday's record gain. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 9 percent — wiping away nearly all of the gains it made earlier this week.

Trump posted the first architectural renderings of his future presidential library, planned for a prime plot of land donated by Miami Dade College. He later said it's "most likely to be a hotel."

Jeffrey Blitz's new film Rocket Science is a partly autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a teenager who joins the high school debate team. Blitz also directed 2002's Oscar-nominated spelling bee documentary Spellbound.