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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news... Sanity For Humanity, Vlad The Emailer, It Takes An Olympic Village

The NPR Politics team lays out what voters will see from each candidate in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

As Congress debates the future of No Child Left Behind, one state falls short of federal testing requirements.

The corseted '60s give way to the freer '70s, as Don Draper begins to fall to pieces in earnest.

Medicare Advantage health plans are privately run, but reimbursed by Medicare. A Texas lawsuit claims that, to inflate charges, 30 Advantage plans in 15 states exaggerated how sick patients were.

TV ads drive name recognition, but it's uncertain exactly how much more they do than that. Yet spending on them will hit record levels in the 2016 cycle.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission grabbed the spotlight in recalls of hoverboard scooters and Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 phones. It's a tiny agency with a vast oversight of thousands of products.

The review was ordered after NPR found that 22,000 soldiers diagnosed with mental health problems or brain injuries were dismissed for misconduct. The Army concluded it fairly dismissed them.

Families who've fled their storm-ravaged island have arrived in Orlando. Schools have opened their doors, but the uncertainty and stress have taken a toll on just about everybody.

Olympic skeleton racers' chins rest an inch or two above the ice. "Obviously, you don't want your face scraping across the ice 'cause it does slow you down," says one. "But it also doesn't feel good."