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Congress is in limbo as the race for speaker of the House plays out. Candidates to replace McCarthy are already campaigning for the job. Meanwhile, lawmakers are concerned about no work can get done.

The Army hasn't met its annual recruitment goal for nearly a decade. The Pentagon says it's changing it recruitment strategy — and bringing back its iconic 1980s ad campaign.

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has been warning U.S. lawmakers that military aid in Ukraine is running out. There are now fears that ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy could delay battlefield support.

Sam Bankman-Fried's trial in New York kicked off with lawyers from both sides delivering their opening statements, painting him as a villain or as an innocent nerd.

One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.

The state-run company is giving customers until Oct. 10 to either accept or decline an offer to switch to the private market, which will help lower the insurer's risk exposure.

Nintendo and Ubisoft both return to form this Autumn, while massive games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Resident Evil 4 get new expansions. NPR rounds up the best and biggest new games of the season.

In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.

Pelosi said the new acting speaker, Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., was behind an email asking her staff to remove their belongings from a workspace she had access to as a former speaker.

The World Health Organization has recommended usage of a second vaccine for the prevention of malaria in children. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 3, 2023.)