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  • FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Rep. Justin Bamberg, D-Bamberg, speaks against an abortion bill at a news conference in the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The parties involved in a lawsuit over South Carolina’s new ban on almost all abortions disagree about how the case should be handled while the U.S. Supreme Court considers similar litigation from Mississippi, with those supporting the restrictions arguing that they should be allowed to collect information for their defense in the coming months. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
    Appellate court sets hearing in South Carolina abortion case
    An appellate court is set to debate a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's abortion law about a week after the U.S. Supreme Court considers a similar measure in Mississippi. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has tentatively calendared the South Carolina case for oral arguments the week of Dec. 6. Planned Parenthood is suing South Carolina over the measure, which requires doctors to perform ultrasounds to check for a so-called "fetal heartbeat."
  • Workers remove security fencing surrounding the U.S. Capitol on Saturday.
    Senators Unveil Competing Funding Proposals For Capitol Police Now Short On Cash
    Weeks before the police agency is slated to run out of money, the Democratic Senate Appropriations chair and the panel's ranking Republican introduced competing emergency funding bills.
  • A view of the Panama Canal last Thursday. The canal is being widened to accommodate larger ships, but the builders and the canal operators are locked in a dispute about who will pay the higher-than-expected costs to finish the project.
    As Costs Soar, Who Will Pay For The Panama Canal's Expansion?
    The canal is being widened to handle much larger ships. But after five years of building, the project is expected to cost at least $1.6 billion more than planned. The builders and the canal operators both say the other side should pay.
  • The Plot Thickens with a Generic Blood Thinner
    A small Canadian firm takes on two of the largest drug companies in the world with its surprise launch of a generic copy of the best-selling blood thinner Plavis. Apotex began shipping its generic version to U.S. stores today. The makers of Plavix sold $6 billion of the popular heart drug last year.
  • eBay Buys Net Phone Provider Skype
    Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.
  • Latest Readings From Three-Minute Fiction
    More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction. We're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Exercise by India DeCarmine of Babylon, N.Y., and Letting Go by Graham Sanders from Oregon City, Ore. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.
  • Three-Minute Fiction: This Week's Featured Stories
    More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction and we're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Pilgrims by Catherine Carberry from Metuchen, N.J., and Fireflies, by Delia Read from Fairfax, Calif. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.
  • Former President Donald Trump welcomes Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., a candidate for U.S. Senate, to the stage during a rally in Cullman, Ala., on Aug. 21, 2021. Trump on Wednesday pulled his endorsement of Brooks, who's been struggling in polls.
    Trump yanks endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Brooks, who said to get past 2020
    Mo Brooks' Republican Senate campaign has been struggling, and now the former president has pulled his endorsement, citing a dispute over the 2020 election.
  • Three-Minute Fiction: First Stand-Out Stories
    Nearly 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction. We're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.
  • A mass cremation of people who died from from COVID-19 in New Delhi, India on April 28, 2021. A new WHO report on "excess deaths" compares their calculations with official numbers and finds millions more people died that the government-provided global total, with India a key example. India disputes the WHO finding and stands by its lower numbers.
    Governments have undercounted the COVID-19 death toll by millions, the WHO says
    Case in point: India, which reported 481,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021. The World Health Organization found 4.74 million deaths there either directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic.
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