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In Youngstown, Ohio, The Vindicator stops publication on Saturday after 150 years, signaling one more gut punch to a struggling city. With a news desert, who will guard the civic henhouse?

Harper's Mary Tyler Moore Show character was the perfect foil for the sitcom's buttoned-up protagonist. "Rhoda had this wonderful quality of saying the unsayable," Harper told NPR in 2010.

A young woman reads an inspiring memoir and goes off to Afghanistan to help out. But what good can she possibly do? NPR's Scott Simon talks to Amy Waldman about her new novel, A Door in the Earth.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Carl Cameron, former Fox News chief political correspondent, about the president's recent tweets slamming the network.

California is close to passing a law allowing campus health centers to dispense the pills used for medication abortions. If it passes, it would be the first state to do so.

In a video game, you can try on different identities. But the rules of the real world don't always translate to the fantasy world.

Protesters clashed with police throughout the night in one of the most dramatic and violent days of unrest since protests began.

In a shooting that began with a traffic stop, Odessa police said a gunman hijacked a mail truck and began shooting people at random, killing at least five and injuring 21. The suspect is dead.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropologist Maggie Paxson about her latest book The Plateau.

Lego announced a new program for downloadable audio and Braille instruction sets for the visually-impaired. One blind Lego enthusiast brought his passion project for accessibility to fruition.