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The stock market ended the first three quarters of 2016 on a positive note. Rising stock prices typically help an incumbent party in a presidential election year. But October can be a wild month.

The Birmingham City Council approved a minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, but some state legislators want to block it. A coalition representing low-wage workers is trying to defend the Birmingham bill.

Civil Rights Leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. NPR's Scott Simon talks with his House colleague, Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama.

The girl's name is Ayda Gezgin – but officials call her "our miracle" after she was pulled relatively unharmed from a collapsed building.

The president said he was having second thoughts after hiking tariffs on Chinese goods and threatening to force U.S. companies out of China. The White House said his comments were misinterpreted.

The video paints an algorithmically assisted world where targeted advertising is incessant and inescapable — a sly nod to the rapper's own cultural ubiquity this year.

With 7.5 million daily passengers, Mumbai's commuter rail system is the world's busiest — and deadliest. A man who lost his legs in a rail accident is leading a campaign for safety.

The pope, an outspoken advocate for refugees and migrants, urged the international community to set aside its differences and turn its attention to crises around the world.

San Diego Unified School District alleges that vaping-related illnesses caused by the e-cigarette maker's products increase student absences, forcing schools to spend on prevention and treatment.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mathew Schmalz, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, who studied Christian communities in Sri Lanka, including those attacked Sunday.