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A package of tobacco bills signed into state law this week aims to cut the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes by adolescents and young adults, proponents say. Military personnel can still buy at age 18.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to StoryCorps founder Dave Isay about the audio recordings made by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

President Biden's personal physician said he is in good health and capable of carrying out his presidential duties.

Just 40% of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing and 58% disapprove, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading in a general election matchup.

The president stood by his statements on Charlottesville during his campaign rally, but he left out the part where he had condemned violence "on many sides."

New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "We should be teaching people ... to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says.

From a talky chameleon who's forced to find his swagger to a silent-screen idol who's losing his mojo, the heroes of 2011's best films made indelible impressions. NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the year's high points.

Suzanne McCabe witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center from a commuter ferry.

The late author J.D. Salinger inspired generations of high school students who read The Catcher in the Rye in English class. A high school English teacher, Allan L'Etoile, and several writers — Shalom Auslander, Rick Moody, and Adam Gopnik — weigh in on what Salinger meant to them.

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is sentenced to at least three years in state prison after his conviction earlier this year for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.