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Jeff Landry's victory marked a huge win for Republicans in Louisiana. The Democratic Party, which held the office for the past eight years, is going back to the drawing board.

The first substantial legislative effort in Congress to support Israel in the war falls far short of President Biden's request for nearly $106 billion that would also back Ukraine as it fights Russia.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., about Congress's closed-door deposition from Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine.

Soccer legend Megan Rapinoe is retiring at the end of the season. Fans and soccer-watchers reflect on her legacy on and off the field.

In 2003, a hospital nurse named Charlie Cullen was arrested under suspicion of injecting patients with lethal doses of a variety of medications. He is now considered one of the nation's most prolific serial killers. Journalist Charles Graeber explains how the hospital system failed to stop Cullen.

Journalist Jonathan Alter regards the 2012 presidential contest as the most consequential election of recent times. In his new book, Alter argues that President Obama's re-election prevented the country from veering sharply to the right, and he dissects the campaign and the events that led up to it.

Yes, the gingerbread house is still here, and so are magic winter strawberries. But this is a world where young women and small children are delicacies, too. They're fattened for roasting, sliced up for serving, and cut up into stew.

The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.

A decade ago, residents thought an old rail line above the city was an eyesore and wanted it torn down. Today, it's one of Manhattan's most popular public spaces. A new book gives the inside story of how Joshua David and Robert Hammond saved the abandoned track.

As a child, poet Philip Schultz struggled in school, but it wasn't until his son was diagnosed with dyslexia that Schultz finally had a name for what had frustrated him all those years. In My Dyslexia, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet revisits his childhood struggles and how he coped.