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The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.

GOP infighting is stymying any agreement to even temporarily fund the federal government after September 30th, and Congress now has fewer days to act.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has been indicted. Prosecutors allege he accepted cash, gold, and other goods in exchange for committing corrupt acts such as providing sensitive information to Egypt.

Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.

Idaho has more backcountry airstrips and wilderness pilots than any state other than Alaska. Many airstrips were incorporated into protected wilderness but now conservationists are challenging them.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is under indictment while in the House, Republican infighting threatens a government shutdown.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Northwestern University political scientist Danielle Gilbert about hostage diplomacy. Five Americans held in Iran were released this week.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Daniel Mason about North Woods, his new novel that tells the story of a patch of land in rural Massachusetts over the course of generations.

The Butner federal prison complex in North Carolina is where a quarter of federal inmate deaths occur. It includes a medical facility but inmates aren't getting needed care, there or at other prisons.

Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country.