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New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

As the NCAA men’s basketball season was wrapping up in early April, the top news story in the sport was not about the University of Connecticut or Purdue. It was about Arkansas. And one big reason is because of a local billionaire's influence.

After Nancy Glynn got pregnant, she learned her employer didn't offer paid family leave. Then, like many Americans, she discovered it was hard to get by without it.

Bill Wehrum, who last week scored a victory for coal industry supporters by rolling back Obama-era power plant emissions rules, is leaving his post at the end of the month.

The committee is expected to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department on at least three criminal charges: the crime of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

The shooting happened just three blocks from BASE, a local cheerleading gym.

The theater was sweltering. There was no script. And yet it was a swift, entertaining show.

Miranda says he doesn't feel the need to duplicate the success of Hamilton. "If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business," he says.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, about U.S. policy on the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Mary Peltola narrowly won a special election that was determined by a ranked-choice voting tabulation. She will become the first Alaska Native in Congress.