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Tur's parents ran a helicopter news service in LA in the '80s and '90s. While she loved the rush of flight, her family dynamic was a volatile one. Her memoir is Rough Draft.

Some of the nation's largest restaurants boast of decades-long survival through economic downturns, stiffer competition, and changing American palates. And we still love them anyway. Why?

Dee Dwyer documents Washington, D.C., bike life — a culture she remembers seeing during her youth in the '90s.

Updated: 10:00 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020 At least two-thirds of Cuyahoga County voters cast ballots in the general election. By the time the polls closed Tuesday night, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reported just over 600,000 people had voted in the county. That’s slightly higher than the number of people who had voted around the same time four years ago, but it trails vote totals in 2012 and 2008.

Heavier tariffs on Chinese goods have led to retaliatory tariffs from China. Virginia soybean farmer John Wesley Boyd Jr. tells NPR's Michel Martin that he hasn't gotten relief for his lost wages.

When Abrams isn't busy doing things like delivering national speeches and running for office, she's also a romance writer — under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Originally broadcast Feb. 9, 2019.

David Wain made his first impression as an entertainer as part of a sketch comedy troupe, “The State” on MTV, in the early 1990s. Members of that group would go on to make “Wet Hot American Summer," a 2001 film about summer camp. The film bombed at the box office but subsequently became a cult favorite. Wain and his comedy colleagues have continued this streak with a number of other films and TV shows, including a new series on Netflix called “Medical Police.” David Wain's father, Norman, started as a Cleveland disc jockey in the 1950s.

When Bad Bunny released YHLQMDLG,he coined a new term: "bichiyal." It fuses two Puerto Rican slang words—"bicha" and "yal"—and illustrates reggaeton's complicated relationship with class and women.

The last Chevy Cruze rolled off the assembly line at the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, Wednesday. Workers draped an American flag over the white, four-door sedan. Now, most of the more than 1,500 workers on the last remaining shift will be laid off.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida, who was part of a group that visited the U.S. southern border on Monday to witness the migrant surge and response first-hand.