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Gloria Ann Taylor was a singer from Toledo, Ohio, when a record producer discovered her and took her to Los Angeles. They eventually married, and through much of the 1970s, created a series of unusual soul and proto disco songs that have become collectors' items. Now some of them are available to everyone on a new CD reissue called Love is a Hurtin' Thing. Oliver Wang has a review.

The college application process can be confusing and frustrating for prospective students. Here's a look at what happens behind the curtain.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former U.K. National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts about the case for abandoning Brexit.

In response to a letter from Sen. Jon Ossoff, Homeland Security said it plans to begin the process to create new rules to increase protections for farmworkers.

The alleged mistreatment of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay sets off a heated Senate debate. Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, compared a description of mistreatment -- submitted to a Pentagon investigator by an F-B-I agent -- to actions carried out by Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Some Republicans accused Durbin of maligning American military personnel.

The Base Closure and Realignment Commission this week will hold its first public hearing (in Rapid City, S.D.) since releasing its base closure list. Communities and congressional members that are facing changes are preparing to make their cases.

The current third grade guarantee, which was enacted in 2013, requires students to take a reading test and if they are not reading on grade level, they are held back. Lawmakers want to change the guarantee but are split on how to do that.

The deadline for a new two-year state budget is midnight on Friday. Ohio lawmakers confirm talks are going well, but it's unlikely the budget can be passed and signed into law in time.

After close to two weeks of fighting and a failed attempt at an internationally-brokered cease-fire, most of its hospitals are shut down and inaccessible.

The popular PBS show will air three episodes from Akron next year, its sixth visit to Ohio but the first to the Rubber City and Stan Hywet.