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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Pennsylvania state House candidate Richard Ringer of Uniontown, Pa. about being the target of threats and violence.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has taken a significant step toward a presidential bid, launching an exploratory committee. Scott, 57, is the only Black Republican currently in the U.S. Senate.

David Zandstra, 83, has been charged with criminal homicide, first-degree murder and other crimes. Investigators say he admitted to killing Gretchen Harrington in 1975.

A severe summer storm system swept from Alabama to New York on Monday, leaving a trail of toppled trees, damaged buildings and transportation headaches in its wake.

The details of Danelo Cavalcante's escape, including that he got out using the same route another prisoner took in May, were released as police flooded a search zone of increasingly worried residents.

In Richard Ford's brilliant collection of four short stories, protagonist Frank Bascombe returns to be "frank" about touchy topics. His awareness, particularly of mortality, is profound and hilarious.

The system is meant to alert the public when someone from the Indigenous community goes missing, but advocates are frustrated by delays in getting alerts out. (Story aired on ATC on July 3, 2023.

The Bush administration picks Michael Mukasey to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in hopes of minimizing controversy. The new nominee must be acceptable to both liberals and conservatives.

Actors in period garb are the usual denizens of the Strawbery Banke Museum campus in Portsmouth, N.H., which spans 250 years of history. To make ends meet, the museum has lured more modern dwellers.

Close to 1,000 people are unaccounted for after the Maui wildfires. The fire burned so hot, some people may never be able to recover the remains of loved ones. (Story aired on ATC on Aug. 24, 2023.)