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The Best of Pickin this week- Iris Dement, JD Crowe, The Infamous Stringdusters, and Wilma Lee Cooper

Two solid hours of both traditional and progressive bluegrass music on Friday Night

Top Democrats in Washington are carefully avoiding denying reports that they have called for President Biden to step aside as the party's nominee for president.

Top Democrats in Washington walking a careful line on Biden amid party panic about his candidacy

Top Democrats in Washington are mired in crisis over President Biden's continued candidacy — exacerbated by his COVID diagnosis. Biden has said he expects to be the party's nominee and is undeterred.

Bob Newhart played psychologist Robert Hartley in the 1970s sitcom <em>The Bob Newhart Show.</em>

'I've lived in an incredible time': Comic Bob Newhart dies at 94

Best known for an everyman persona that powered two classic TV sitcoms, Newhart managed to be the funniest guy in the room while playing unassuming characters.

Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

J.D. Vance's hometown, Middletown, Ohio, reacts to his VP nomination

Some in Middletown, where Vance grew up with his grandparents, said he has never been an advocate for them. Even so, Vance’s roots could be enough for folks eager to see the “hometown kid” succeed.

As climate disasters go up, so do home insurance costs. HUD wants to break the cycle

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with HUD acting secretary Adrianne Todman about how climate change is making home insurance pricier or even impossible to get -- a problem being addressed with a summit.

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters talks bipartisan investigation into assassination attempt

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, about the questions that Congress is launching about the Secret Service security that allowed a direct line of fire at Trump.

Rick Hustead, chairman of Wall Drug, works the restaurant counter when things get busy. Hustead's grandfather opened the store in 1931.

You can pan for gold at Wall Drug in South Dakota. Locals need it as a pharmacy, too

Wall Drug is a huge, cowboy-themed tourist attraction near Badlands National Park, visited by 2 million people a year. It also has a functional pharmacy that faces many of the challenges of rural health care.

RNC to hear from Trump after VP nominee Vance addressed GOP delegates

Former President Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night for the final session of the GOP convention. His pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, addressed the crowd Wednesday night.

A sign marks the entrance to a voting precinct on the first day of early voting in the general election in Phoenix, Oct. 12, 2022. Arizona Latinos responded to a tough crackdown on immigrants by building a turnout machine that helped propel Democrats to power.

Latinos helped Biden in 2020. He'll need to earn their votes this year, expert says

Biden shouldn’t consider Latino vote a given, but Trump's immigration plan could chill support for him, outreach expert Stephanie Valencia tells Morning Edition.

Workmen searched through the debris of what was the carpenter shop on the pier at Port in Chicago, Calif. on July 18, 1944 after the building was leveled by the explosion of two munition ships the evening of July 17. Other buildings on the waterfront and in the town itself were shattered by the terrific blast, which was felt 50 miles from the scene.

The Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished over 1944 WWII port explosion

The blast that happened at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California killed 320 people and injured 400 more.

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