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Rachel Martin talks to Cassandra Levesque, a New Hampshire state legislator who starts her first term in office on Wednesday. Changing child marriage laws motivated her to run for office.

Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are still fighting over President Trump's demand to include $5 billion for a border wall in the annual spending bill and have until Dec. 21 to get a deal.

NPR's Deb Amos speaks to Scott Simon about covering Operation Desert Storm.

A court found all three men guilty of murder and sentenced them each to 40 years in prison for the 2017 killing of a 17-year-old who police said they suspected was a drug runner.

Gottlieb, who will resign in a month, stood out in the Trump administration for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. The reasons for his resignation are not yet clear.

New York City's art museum scene has gone to the dogs. The new American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog features life-sized sculptures and paintings of canines through the ages.

Criminal case defendants are provided an attorney if they can't afford one. They usually are billed for that representation, even if they're found not guilty. New Hampshire wants the policy change.

The hazelnut business is in a bind. Demand is rising, supply is tight, and a deadly fungal disease is constraining production. But one man may have found a solution.

Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States whose writing explored everything from nature to mortality to the toss of a baseball, has died. Hall began writing when he was 12 years old.

North Korea recently pledged to begin dismantling the Punggye-ri site later this month in front of foreign media, but the security blog 38 North says its destruction is already underway.