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Last year, the number of homeless U.S. veterans on a given night fell 12 percent from the year before. But tens of thousands were still on the streets, and more could soon join them as troops return home. President Obama has vowed to end veterans' homelessness by 2015.

With dense forests and rugged beauty, Grindstone Island is a favorite summer getaway for visitors — and some of them never want to leave. The island near the Canadian border has one official cemetery, but locals say that hundreds of people are buried there, in unofficial gravesites.

As results roll in on election night, Pennsylvania's may take a while longer. Here's why that is. And, the ACLU challenges Louisiana's Ten Commandments law saying it harms children.

Israeli strikes on multiple homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday left at least 87 people dead or missing, the territory's Health Ministry said.

Steve Inskeep talks with writer Anand Giridharadas about the relationship between Silicon Valley and Saudi Arabia. The presumed killing of a Saudi journalist raises concerns about the investments.

President Trump is spending the run up to the midterms talking about immigration proposals. House Republican leaders hope they are still in the majority and say their agenda will focus on the economy.

The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.

The U.S. says 8,000 North Korean soldiers are in Russia preparing to fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days.

Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year’s election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Carol Greenwald, executive producer at GBH Kids, about how her team is formatting the beloved cartoon "Arthur" as a podcast.