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Republicans have held Ohio's 12th Congressional District for 30 years. The special election August 7 looks harder than usual for the GOP. It's the final special election before the midterm elections.

"The horse is out of the barn and the barn is gone," MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld says of trying to control access to 3D-printed gun information.

Billboard magazine's conclusive countdown of the biggest pop records of the day — the Hot 100 — turns 60 years old Saturday. The way the chart is tabulated has changed over time.

After days of increasingly restive waiting, official vote tallies have been released in the country's presidential race. The incumbent won but the opposition says the vote was rigged.

The economy continued to add jobs at a steady pace last month and the unemployment rate remained low. Analysts have been looking for signs that wage growth might pick up, but it held steady, too.

People escaping the Carr fire in northern California didn't want to part with their pets. So a separate shelter opened up for people and their pets.

Rachel Martin talks to David Benda of the Redding Record Searchlight about reporters at the northern California newspaper covering a massive wildfire there — despite many being evacuated themselves.

The Saudi government announced it will stop its national airline from traveling to Toronto. This comes after the Gulf nation expelled the Canadian ambassador and recalled its own ambassador.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Matthew Hurteau, a forest ecologist at University of New Mexico, about the effectiveness of tree clearing and thinning in preventing wildfires or mitigating their intensity.

Rachel Martin speaks with Lise Grande of the United Nations in Yemen about another terrible turn in the war in Yemen: an airstrike has killed dozens of children travelling on a bus.