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NPR's Scott Simon asks the Libertarian vice presidential candidate to lay out the positions of his party on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues.

NPR's Scott Simon reports on a moment of grace in this nasty campaign season.

A large group of Afghans lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the announcement of U.S. deal with the Taliban to reduce violence and enter peace talks has the expats wondering what's next.

Dick Ehrman of Lincoln, Neb. plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The FDA has approved field trials of a genetically engineered mosquito designed to combat Zika and other diseases. But there's strong opposition in Florida where the GMO insects would be tested.

A new video shows the moments before a fatal Chicago police shooting of an unarmed teenager suspected of car theft. Chicago Sun-Times reporter Carol Marin tells NPR's Scott Simon about the fallout.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Hector Colon Cruz, deputy director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response in Puerto Rico, about the large number of pregnancies showing evidence of Zika.

The head of the TSA is in Chicago Friday, trying to mend fences with city leaders and angry airline passengers who have been stuck waiting for hours to get through security checkpoints.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigned this week shortly after the fatal shooting of an African-American woman in the city.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has a few more days to decide what to do with a bill on her desk that would make it a felony for doctors to perform abortions. Opponents call the bill "sweeping and unprecedented."