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NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Clinton administration plans to make a military satellite system more available for civilian uses. Currently, the Pentagon scrambles signals from its Global Positioning System for security reasons. But there's been a growing push to unscramble the signals for a variety of uses, including airplane navigation.

NPR's David Greene talks to Chrissy Houlahan, winner of the (unopposed) Democratic primary in Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District, about how she plans to flip the seat in the midterm elections.

Why are several companies competing to publish a work that's in the public domain?

Witnesses say the gunman, who was white, was holding a beer as he fired into the crowd. All of his victims are people of color.

American Electric Power, an Ohio-based company, has agreed to a $4.6 billion settlement of a lawsuit over pollution controls at its power plants. The Justice Department says it's the biggest environmental enforcement settlement ever.

Congressional Republicans hope to pass a sweeping tax overhaul before Christmas, but first they'll have to resolve some major policy differences that could derail the bill.

Our program today features an excerpt from the University of South Carolina Moore School's recent Economic Outlook Conference.Today's excerpt comes from…

More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 160 others injured in a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesian tourist spot Lombok island and surrounding areas, officials say.

New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

Baby Carmen was born to a surrogate mother in Thailand. Her parents, one American and one from Spain, have fallen afoul of a new law, and now the Thai woman who gave birth to Carmen wants her back.