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When he was 17, Mike Brodie hopped a train with a Polaroid camera and a pack of film. About 10 years later, he doesn't hop trains and doesn't really photograph, either. But he does have a book out about those years.

You've likely heard lots this week about how rare the repeated failed Speaker votes have been. But is this a new level of dysfunction for Congress?

Megan Abbott's novel about a talented young gymnast and her mother starts with a mysterious death, but the real mysteries are the characters themselves: You never really know the people close to you.

What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy (it's NPR afterall).

Instead of getting more money from an ATM, Kenny Johnson of Charleston, W.Va. robbed a bank so he could use the money to keep gambling. He now faces up to 18 years in prison.

The other night in England, a Coventry City soccer fan saw his team down. He ran out onto the pitch during a play, walked up to his team and berated them. Security removed him.

After nearly two and a half years, NASA is on the verge of launching a space shuttle. If weather permits, Discovery will blast into orbit Wednesday afternoon. The mission will service the international space station, but it is also an important symbolic step after the Columbia disaster of 2003.

Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. About 40 years later, he reflects on how factory work and the role of unions have changed.

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has been airing on network television since 1966. But if you want to see it this year, you'll have to watch it on Apple TV Plus.

The "Castle Doctrine" played a key role in the defense of a former police officer who shot and killed a black man in his own home.