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The agreement would fund programs through the end of September 2020 and avoid a government shutdown. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight on Dec. 20.

The performance of inaugural poet Amanda Gorman during last week's swearing in ceremony of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was a call…

New Hampshire's high death rate from COVID-19 in elder-care facilities has exposed gaps in protective gear, testing, and staffing. Improvements have come…

The saga over Sen. Joe Manchin's party affiliation comes after an article claimed the West Virginia Democrat had plans to become an independent. Machin has denied the report.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the fantasy board game Dungeons and Dragons. Learn how the enduring popularity of the game has inspired a new generation of video game designers, and meet some modern fans of the game.

On Oct. 11, 2001, more than 5,000 Kansans took part in a project called "A Day in My Community." They kept a diary for a single day, to leave a historical record of their lives at the beginning of the millennium. In a six-part weekly series, Morning Edition brings you some of their Prairie Diaries.

Eddie McCoy is an unlikely historian. He grew up and has lived his whole life in Oxford, North Carolina -- a tobacco town of some 10,000 people. When he was injured in a car accident and couldn’t keep working, he found a tape recorder and started interviewing people. His work is a unique window on small town life in the South.

To produce the iconic theme song, the late composer drew on a piece he had written for a proposed musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas."

Recorded with Liz Harris' voice, a piano and not much else, Ruins achieves striking intimacy, its emotional heft commanding attention throughout.

Hear this week's essential listening with new music from My Morning Jacket, Sharon Van Etten, Conor Oberst's Desaparecidos and more.