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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Anna Douglas about the close U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races happening in North Carolina. She reports on North Carolina for McClatchy DC.

Voting can be a lot of work — just ask California residents, who have 17 statewide and 650 local ballot measures to educate themselves about before next week's election.

Firearms sales are soaring across the country in the lead up to Election Day. Gun shop owners and firearm manufacturers are pointing to election-related angst as the cause.

Rep. Carlos Curbelo won re-election in an area that went overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton. Now he faces challenges in backing his constituents' interests while working with a Trump administration.

President-elect Donald Trump made three senior cabinet appointments Friday. His picks for national security adviser, CIA director and attorney general offer clues to his administration's priorities.

The principal, Amy Robertson, resigned after Pittsburg High School's student paper investigated her claim of having degrees from Corllins University, an entity whose legitimacy has been questioned.

Factory workers in the French port city of Calais have been battered by globalization and surrounded by migrants. Some say they will break with tradition and vote for anti-immigration, anti-European Union presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

The politics of respectability were complicated this week when a 69 year-old Asian-American doctor was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight.

Is trade school the ticket? Does the middle class have the worst debt woes? Listeners weigh in with burning student loan questions.

Veterans have a significantly higher rate of suicide than civilians. The numbers for female veterans, however, are two to five times higher than their civilian counterparts.