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Europe is dealing with its largest wave of displaced people since World War II — a quarter million migrants just this year. NPR's Rachel Martin gets the numbers from correspondent Ari Shapiro.

Ali Black read “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine twice, and she now she is reading it a third time with local students. “The first time I read ‘Citizen’ I had like a sigh of relief," Black said. "I was like, ‘thank God somebody is writing these types of poems and having this conversation.’” In “Citizen,” Rankine writes about racism in everyday life and what it feels like through a collection of poems.

Four Republican senators are at odds with the White House over proposed legislation on terrorism suspects. The White House does not like a version of the bill passed by the GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration's goal of signing a measure into law before mid-term elections now seems in doubt.

President Bush says reforming social security will be a top priority during his second term. He wants workers to be able to divert some of their payroll taxes into private accounts. They could invest that money in stocks and bonds to save for their own retirement. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on what privatization could mean, and how it might be done.

The Biden administration is restoring the original boundaries of two large national monuments in Utah - Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.

A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.

Every week is concert week on Classical 101. Tune in to hear everything from Ravel to Bach with witty insight and conversation from hosts in-the-know.…

People in Texas react to the Supreme Court's decision Monday overturning a state law cutting the number of health clinics that perform abortions.

If you’ve requested an absentee ballot, now is the time return it to your local board of elections, Ohio election officials said Wednesday. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. Boards will accept properly postmarked absentees up until 10 days after the election, adding valid late arrivals to the post-election official vote canvass.

At least four people were killed in a shooting spree on Monday, before police shot and killed a gunman that the country's interior minister described as an "Islamist terrorist."