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At Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, people start lining up at 5 a.m. to get a taste of world-famous brisket. The line has become such a fixture that it's become a business opportunity for locals.

Improper payments by Medicare and Medicaid are wasting billions of dollars a year, the White House budget director said. He called for urgent corrective action in a letter that is now public.

Three new cases have raised questions about how the virus can suddenly reappear in a place where it had previously been eradicated.

Three college professors respond to questions about the evolving challenges of teaching the history of a complex nation.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Heather Garcia, the manager of a travel center in Indio, Calif. Brett Kelman, a Palm SpringsDesert Sunreporter, also has more on why the bridge collapsed.

The U.S. and Mexico play in the CONCACAF Cup Saturday night. The U.S. head coach is under pressure and a Mexican star is out injured, but so far, a couple of advertisements are stealing the show.

New social science research explores why the unemployment rate for blacks is persistently worse than the unemployment rate for whites.

The Department of Labor reported the September jobs numbers in its latest report. New jobs fell short of what most economists had forecast.

After months of impassioned debate over the ethics of physician-assisted suicide, California will become the fifth state to allow people who are terminally ill to hasten death with lethal drugs.

In July 1970, Duke Ellington recorded two tunes engineered by Conny Plank. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says The Conny Plank Session,which is now on CD, is a window onto Ellington's working method.