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Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams talks to NPR's Scott Simon about the significance of the swing state and what, she thinks, it will take to keep Georgia "blue" in 2024.

We review the eventful week in politics — the Democratic National Convention, the Trump campaign's counterprogramming, and RFK Jr. suspending his campaign.

The past and present merge for NPR's Scott Simon, who attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as a teen in 1968 and now as a senior citizen.

Boeing's troubled Starliner remains docked at the International Space Station as NASA decides it is too risky to bring the astronauts home on the spacecraft. The two astronauts will return in February.

The concert promoters who ran popular music cruises are now trying the music vacation concept on land, promising no lines and a different kind of music fest experience for both artists and fans.

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation, and now Arizona's attorney general, questioning its safety.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead guilty in the killing that sparked outrage and renewed calls for police reform. Three former officers still face trial in federal court next month.

A workers union threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major railroads. A government-ordered arbitration hearing ended without a decision. Trains are expected to keep moving through Monday.

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight others at a crowded festival.