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Julian Barnes returns with a Booker Prize-winning novel while Michael Parker wins big praise for his historical story set in North Carolina. In nonfiction, there are memoirs by writer Joan Didion and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, plus David M. Eagleman looks into the secret life of the brain.

The measures were introduced following a 15-hour talk-a-thon in which Democrats demanded new controls on gun sales following the shootings in Orlando, Fla.

NPR's Noel King talks to Brazilian-based reporter Catherine Osborn about the explosion of gang violence in four prisons in northern Brazil in which nearly 60 inmates died.

A deadlock in the Israeli parliament seems to be headed to what will be the fourth election in two years — and another struggle by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay in power.

NPR's Noel King talks reporter Jennifer Glasse about Afghanistan's presidential election and reports of historically low voter turnout due to Taliban threats and flawed voting procedures.

Breakfast with Nick joins us in the kitchen to make a Dutch Baby.

In addition to Mother Teresa, four other Catholic figures — who lived in Argentina, Mexico, Sweden and Poland — will become saints this year.

Few industries have been as hard hit by the pandemic as airlines, as the number of air travelers has plummeted.

Updated 4:17 p.m., 6/10/19 A magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit the Cleveland area around 10:50 a.m. Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter was in Lake Erie, approximately four kilometers north-northwest of Eastlake. Eastlake police and the Lake County Emergency Management Agency say they received no reports of injuries or damage, but that people flooded their phone lines asking what had happened.

Ohio's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 4.1% in January, unchanged from the month before.State officials said Friday that…