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Ohio Republican Jim Jordan says he will call for a third ballot vote in his bid to become speaker of the House.

A summer job in a Baltimore funeral home turned into a nine-year career and lifelong passion for Sheri Booker. Her coming-of-age memoir recalls tears and trade secrets of the mortuary business.

In fiction, Colm Toibin imagines Mary's life after Jesus' crucifixion, Anthony Marra chronicles a child's fate in war-torn Chechnya and Jamaica Kincaid meditates on the unraveling of a marriage.

The galaxies' fanciful names belie their actual ages: In this case of the Penguin and the Egg, it’s the Egg that came first.

The water boil advisory had been announced Wednesday night for safety reasons. It had posed a challenge as the nation's capital prepares to stage its annual Fourth of July celebrations.

The National Weather Service in Cleveland confirmed an EF-0 tornado in Huron County. This was the 63rd tornado in Ohio this year, surpassing the previous record set in 1992.

Despite the idea being rejected right after Ohio voters passed the abortion and reproductive rights amendment Nov. 7, the bill is being championed by some of the legislature's most conservative members.

It's the latest salvo in the government's campaign against so-called "junk fees," which President Biden said last year harm "working folks" and drive up costs for consumers.

Monday, May 3, 2021, marks the 50th anniversary of NPR's first on-air original broadcast. Look back at the network's history through a linear timeline.

The 15-second video of Taters the cat was beamed to Earth from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away. Taters is shown chasing a red laser light.