Rabbis Consider Presidential Election In Yom Kippur Sermons
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, about how rabbis are addressing the election in their high holiday sermons.
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Colorado Wrestles With Ethics Of Aid-In-Dying As Vote Looms
Colorado is the latest state to consider legalizing aid in dying. Residents find themselves struggling with whether assisted death is an act of mercy or a moral slippery slope.
California Fails To Extend Family Leave Rights For Parents At Small Businesses
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes a bill that would have required small businesses to guarantee that employees' jobs would be there for them after they take parental leave.
Trace The Remarkable History Of The Humble Pencil
The classroom writing implement has roots in exploding stars, the French Revolution, the British crown jewels and Walden Pond.
Federal Court Rules Consumer Watchdog's Structure Is Unconstitutional
An independent federal agency should not be run by a single person, the court found. It decided to remedy the situation by giving the president the authority to fire the agency head at will.
President Obama Really Wants People To Live On Mars
In an op-ed for CNN, the president wrote that he hopes to one day look at the night sky with his grandchildren and tell them that humans are living on Mars.
A Friend For Pluto: Astronomers Find New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
The object known for now as 2014 UZ224 is only about 330 miles across and takes 1,100 years to orbit the sun. But one of the most interesting things about it is the way researchers found it.
VIDEO: Aerial Footage Shows Scale Of Destruction In Aleppo
They are haunting images: rubble-filled streets and entire blocks of ghostly facades. The United Nations says about 250,000 civilians are trapped in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
Trump Apparently Quotes Russian Propaganda To Slam Clinton On Benghazi
Donald Trump cited email from a Clinton adviser but misconstrued it in the same way that a Kremlin-funded website had.
After Hurricane Matthew, Floodwaters Rise To Record Levels In North Carolina
As the rainwater dumped by Matthew flows downriver, towns are being overwhelmed by devastating floods. "You're dealing with just massive amounts of water," one reporter says.