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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.

Morning Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.

At least 11 cases of the viral disease are linked to a British man's ski trip to the Alps after attending a conference in Singapore.

During Operation Metro Surge, mutual aid efforts raised millions of dollars. But with most agents gone and increasing fatigue from the community, funds are drying up and people are moving on. Immigrants are not.

That's the finding of a new study in Bangladesh, which gave reading glasses to hundreds of people and then measured their earnings.

Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country nearly a year ago. Many are thinking about leaving the state and those who stayed behind say it's made life terrifying.

Critic John Powers returns from the French film festival to talk about this year's new international films. Top among his picks is The Assassin, a martial arts film by director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

The U.S. economy started showing signs of recovery in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Four years later, the economy is slow to recover in some areas. The stock market and housing are showing signs of growth, while unemployment still lags behind.

A man committed a horrible crime. Then he decided he no longer wanted to be a bad person. It is possible to change our personalities, psychologists say, even though we like to think they're innate.