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A bipartisan group of 10 former secretaries of defense criticized attempts to challenge November's presidential election and called it a dangerous threat to the nation's security.

Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast has hit the French bestseller list a half century after its publication, all because of a French granny. A 77-year-old Paris woman who lives near the Bataclan concert hall gave a TV interview that went viral. In the interview, she calls on her countrymen to read Hemingway's novel of living it up in the "City of Light."

Sensors that work inside the body are gaining new skills. The latest version can track heart rate and respiratory rate, as well as temperature, as it travels through the digestive system.

In Martinez's favorite podcast, the hosts ask guests what makes them cry.

The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.

A new session of Congress opens, with Nancy Pelosi looking to get reelected speaker with her slimmer majority.

ISIS has set an unprecedented tempo of terrorist attacks. It began in October when it downed a Russian airliner near Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, moved to Lebanon and now Paris all in less than a month. Counterterrorism officials say it is wrong to look at these events individually. They say this is a "campaign of terror," and it suggests some level of coordination from ISIS's leadership as well as the growing capacity of the organization.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to retired Gen. Carter Ham, former head of U.S. Africa Command, about U.S. military efforts to counter jihadist groups in Africa.

Not everyone delights in turkey as the centerpiece to Thanksgiving. We asked three chefs around the country for their suggestions of winning alternatives. They came up with venison, pork and biryani.

Two runoffs in Georgia will decide control of the U.S. Senate. A day before the election, NPR offers the latest on the political campaigns and discusses voters' opinions.