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Ahead of Election Day, first-time political campaign volunteers discuss why this was the year they decided to grab a clipboard and get involved in the elections happening around them.

Though widely prescribed in hospital intensive care units to treat hallucinations and other signs of delirium, Haldol and similar drugs are no better than a placebo for such patients, a study finds.

Election officials are trying to improve security to prevent foreign interference. But some states, like Pennsylvania, will have to make do with voting equipment many experts consider to be insecure.

Salt is to be admired for its atomic beauty and proof of order in the universe. Our astrophysicist friend Adam Frank says you can find some good news in something as simple as a single grain of salt.

Voters in four states are set to decide whether they should take the power to draw political boundaries away from politicians.

Former deputy director of the FBI John Pistole tells NPR's Noel King what investigators will be looking for in the investigation into pipe bombs mailed to several prominent Democrats and CNN.

The University of Maryland has dropped Coach DJ Durkin, who was accused of abusing players, including one who collapsed and died. Rachel Martin speaks with Barry Svrluga, Washington Post columnist.

The city of Boston is celebrating another World Series win, after the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday night for their fourth championship since 2004.

The children were taken from a Presbyterian school near the northwestern city of Bamenda, which has been the center of a Anglophone separatist movement marked by violence since late 2016.

Merkel announced that she will step down from leading the Christian Democratic Union after her party struggled in a regional election. Her current term as chancellor runs into 2021.