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With a government shutdown looming, Democrats are pushing to extend key tax credits that keep ACA premiums low. Without them, millions face rate hikes or risk losing their coverage.

2: LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday at the age of 80. Jazz critic Francis DAvis once wrote of him, No other critic has fought the good fight longer, on as many fronts, or communicated the joys of jazz to as many generations of readers. Leonard Feather grew up in England and moved to America in 1940. Feather's LA Times column was syndicated around the world. His most important writing was his encylopedia of jazz, an essential reference work of musician bios. He had spent his final months editing a new edition, which is scheduled for publication next year. Feather also produced about 200 recording sessions, composed for many of the musicians he worked with, and even played piano on some of their sessions. Throughout his career he campaigned on behalf of women in jazz, and worked for racial equality in field.

We’re discussing the ongoing gun violence epidemic in this country. We planned this show before Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday in Utah.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously declared a public health crisis for Latino residents.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the conservative podcaster Michael Knowles, who was a friend of Charlie Kirk's and will headline tonight's show of The American Comeback Tour as a tribute to Kirk.

The Trump administration announced Monday that the FDA will be updating drug labelling to discourage the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women, suggesting a link between the painkiller and autism.

2: SINDIWE MAGONA is a fiction writer who was born and educated in South Africa. Her autobiography, "To my Children's Children," (Interlink Books) traces her life under the apartheid system. In her memoir, she describes her childhood in a poor South African town, and the hasty end a teenage pregnancy put to her career as a teacher. The memoir won an honorable mention from the 1991 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. MAGONA has also published another novel, "Forced to Grow," and a collection of short stories. She currently works as a translator for the United Nations.

has some thoughts on the Los Angeles freeway system. She says it helped explain the problem men have with asking for directions.

Thousands of volunteers flocked to the California coast and waterways on Saturday to participate in the 41st annual California Coastal Cleanup Day.

NPR talks with Margus Tsahkna, the foreign minister of Estonia, about Russia's alleged incursion into Estonian airspace and NATO's response.

Johansson and Squibb discuss their new film, about a 94-year-old woman who claims her dead friend's Holocaust story as her own. "It's rare to feel surprised when you read a script," Johansson says.

Locals and visitors celebrate the sighting of a red-eyed creature first spotted nearly sixty years ago.