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Order a drink, but hold the bartender? As it becomes relatively more expensive to run restaurants and bars, some are saving money by replacing human servers with pour-your-own electronic taps.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Claudia Grisales and Michael Bopp, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget, about testimony showing two OMB employees quit over the withholding of aid.

Inclement weather sure has a knack for bad timing. On the eve of Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel periods of the year, high winds and heavy snow are buffeting places from Oregon to New England.

The 6.4 magnitude temblor killed more than two dozen people and injured hundreds. Rescuers are racing to find survivors — and those who lived must now pick up the pieces of their former lives.

The blast is the latest in a string of industrial incidents in east Texas. The explosion at the petrochemical plant injured three people and blew out windows and mangled doors of some nearby homes.

The legislation is not a blanket ban. Instead, it limits the sale of flavored nicotine vaping products, including menthol, "to licensed smoking bars where they may only be smoked on-site."

Last Call, a new book by author Brad Thomas Parsons, examines the rituals behind closing time at dozens of bars around the country. Parsons asks bartenders what their final drink would be.

President Trump signed a bill Wednesday showing support for pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. But in an effort to avoid upsetting delicate trade talks, the president soft-pedaled the message to mainland China.

Though she and her younger brother are very different, he's the one, in a way, she knows best. Sibling relationships, in fact, are the longest-lasting family ties we have, transcending time and loss.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Matt Dempsey of the Houston Chronicle about regulatory failures of the chemical industry after there was an explosion Wednesday at a chemical plant in Texas.