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At Russ & Daughters, it takes three months to learn how to slice salmon. NPR's Scott Simon visits the 100 year-old appetizing store to try his hand at the fine art and talk about their new cookbook.

In the final hours before the 2024 election season closes, the presidential campaigns are reaching out to voters in key swing states including North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Republican strategist Tricia McLaughlin and Democratic strategist Katrina Gamble what were the stories their parties' conventions tried to tell -- and were they successful?

Venezuelan opponents and U.S. officials were predicting his demise years ago. But Nicolás Maduro and his Socialist Party remain firmly in power.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year. NPR asked some in this group how brands and corporations can get their attention.

Since Superstorm Sandy, officials in Washington, D.C., have gotten a clear idea of what would happen in a worst-case storm scenario. Key government buildings and tourist sites like the Smithsonian museums are particularly vulnerable to flooding. So federal and local officials are taking steps to protect them.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina completely disrupted schooling in New Orleans. When families returned to the city, a growing number of charter schools promised to send every student to college.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro pays a visit to Larch Hanson, who has been harvesting wild seaweed in Maine for more than 40 years.

Of the more than 200,000 women incarcerated in the U.S., a majority are women with children. Eight prisons allow women to keep their newborns for up to 30 months. A facility in Seattle is one of them.