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The job market improved in June, as employers added 288,000 workers to their payrolls and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent. In another welcome development, the ranks of the long-term unemployed declined.

The NFL has completed the regular season during the pandemic. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lindsay Jones of The Athletic about what worked, what didn't and the playoffs.

McCain was shot down during the Vietnam War and was held captive and tortured for years. The ordeal helped fuel his political career.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis, about the shift in people's behaviors in the aftermath of mass shootings.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor about the one year anniversary of the #MeToo movement.

For the first time ever, Boston's next elected mayor will not be a white man. Two women of color will face off in the November general election after a historic preliminary vote.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Jim Warren, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ongoing political crisis.

Hong Chau, star of the movie Downsizing, discusses her role and her background, which she said prepared her for a career in acting.

Getting or staying active has a wide variety of health benefits as people age. They can include everything from stronger bones to improved mental wellbeing.

Alabama's new court ruling that frozen embryos should receive legal protections as "unborn life," leaves fertility clinics and parents-to-be in limbo.