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State Rep. Barbara Cooper, D-Memphis, watches the vote board as her bill to limit license restoration fees passes during House session on April 12, 2006 in Nashville, Tenn. Cooper, who served in the General Assembly, died on Oct. 25, 2022. She was 93. (AP Photo/John Russell, File)

Opinion: A life lesson from these midterm elections

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on several electoral races in which candidates were posthumously elected.

South Koreans are becoming a year younger following a set of bills passed by parliament to unify the country's age system.

South Koreans are getting younger, as a new law goes into effect

People in South Korea all became at least one year younger on Wednesday, as the country dropped a traditional method of counting their ages. Under the old system, a person was one year old at birth.

New NPR podcast, 'A Good Guy,' follows Marine who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6

The new NPR podcast debuts Friday. It tells the story of Sergeant Josh Abate, who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 along with two of his fellow Marines.

Linda Munson's youngest grandson, Daniel Gomez, 2, tries on an Oculus headset in her yard in Berlin, Conn. Playing different virtual reality games has become her family's regular Sunday activity, Munson said.

Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic — and the trend is sticking around

During lockdown, gyms were out of the question. But some people felt more comfortable exercising at home, and companies hope to keep attracting new users by making VR apps more addictive and fun.

This undated photo appeared on a website investigated by the FBI in connection with Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a Charleston, S.C., church in June 2015.

What Happened When Dylann Roof Asked Google For Information About Race?

The 22-year-old said in court documents that the results of a Google search shaped his beliefs on race years before he murdered nine people in a historically black South Carolina church.

President Trump, accompanied by Vice President Pence (left) and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, pauses while speaking at the Department of Homeland Security.

'A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation': Trump Moves Forward With U.S.-Mexico Wall

A campaign promise gets closer to reality with a new executive order Wednesday, one of several changes the president announced in a visit to Homeland Security.

A security person stands in front of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on September 11.

5 things the U.N. boss is very worried about and signal 'a time of great peril'

From fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, to fertilizer shortages and Europe's energy crisis, these are five things on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' mind right now.

<em>Law & Order</em> actor Sam Waterston, shown here in 2016, also co-stars in the Netflix series<em> Grace and Frankie </em>and in the Hulu series <em>The Dropout</em>.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Law & Order' actor Sam Waterston; 'White Lies' author A.J. Baime

Waterston returns to Law & Order, glad to be working into his 80s. David Bianculli reviews the HBO series Julia. Baime discusses Walter White, a Black activist who investigated lynching in the South.

Vice President George H.W. Bush accepts the Republican nomination for president in 1988. In that speech, he laid out a promise that he would later break, hurting his chance at re-election and changing his party.

6 Little Words Helped Make George H.W. Bush (A 1-Term) President

"Read my lips" succeeded at countering Bush's image problem. But if it improved his chances of being elected in 1988, it may have ruined his chances of being re-elected in 1992.

Politics chat: U.S. intelligence will conduct damage assessment of recovered Mar-a-Lago documents

Both President Biden and former President Trump are headed to Pennsylvania this week as the midterm election campaigns heat up.

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