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Nick Minnerath was an unlikely NBA hopeful. He failed off his high school team twice and lost two years to drugs. But a family friend and a coach who gave him a shot renewed his basketball ambitions.

Summer Miller shares stories and recipes from award-winning chefs in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and more.

The measure's prospects in the Senate are dim after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he opposed the bipartisan, 9/11-style panel.

Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.

The University of Alamba is one of the top 10 repatriation efforts.

A Massachusetts National Guardsman was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the leak of top secret intelligence documents in a gaming forum.

Political strategist Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign, comments on the final presidential debate. Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the state's top ranking African-American official, also weighs in.

It's a long summer weekend, the perfect time to retreat to the air-conditioned comfort of the rec room to watch your favorite film. All of Weekend Edition's regular voices submitted their top choices.

Kevin Maki takes us inside the world of a top-notch sheep shearer in western Montana, where the spring shearing season has begun.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to corporate attorney Isaac Vaughn, hailed by Black Enterprise magazine as one of America's top black lawyers, about overcoming the challenges people of color often face when they seek to own their own businesses.