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The Pentagon says the guided missile destroyer passed within 12 nautical miles of the Spratly Islands Tuesday morning. China has claimed control, but the U.S. says the area is in international waters.

The White House and Congress are close to reaching a two-year plan to fund the government. NPR has the latest on what appears to be happening on Capitol Hill.

This week, the Hidden Brain podcast explores the science of fear — traveling to a haunted house curated by a scientist to investigate what scares us, and why some people enjoy feeling fear.

NPR's Shankar Vedantam tells Steve Inskeep about a Halloween experiment to see whether children can be swayed to change their political preferences with candy.

High Bridge Arms is shutting down at the end of the month. Gun enthusiasts say proposed city firearms regulations are forcing the store to close, but advocates of the new measures say that's not true.

As Congress attempts to rewrite the much-maligned federal education law, it's worth exploring its successes and shortcomings in fixing broken schools.

O'Brien's latest album as Villagers, Darling Arithmetic, came just as his native Ireland was preparing to make a historic vote on marriage equality.

Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Anthony Kuhn about the implications of U.S. naval maneuvers near man-made Chinese islands in the South China Sea.

Russia has been accused of hitting a hospital in the Syrian province of Idlib. Dr. Mohamed Tennari of the Syrian American Medical Society says his hospital has already been hit 18 times by the regime.

Refugees from both sides of Syria's civil war are among those now streaming into Europe. It makes for some sensitive discussions along the migrant trail.