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NPR has been reporting on the country's tough economic times for years, but in November, two reporters take the story on the road. Starting this week, correspondents Debbie Elliott and Richard Gonzales begin reporting for the NPR series Hard Times: A Journey Across America..

NPR's Linda Wertheimer walks the halls of power — and the local cafes — with crime novelist Mike Lawson, whose Joe DeMarco books serve up murder and mayhem in the nation's capital.

Mark Helprin's sweeping midcentury novel, In Sunlight and In Shadow, describes a postwar New York in limbo. Helprin borrowed from his own experiences to write this tale of love and familial obligations. "It's all based on what I know and what I knew," he says.

The first verdict in decades for a head of state charged with international war crimes is set to be delivered Thursday. Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, is charged with fueling a vicious civil war in Sierra Leone, where it was a widespread practice to hack off the limbs of civilians.

'Another Earth' Filmmakers Speak with Cinema Junkie

At a forum Monday night in Birmingham, Ala., Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich vied for last-minute support ahead of Tuesday's primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Values, religion and the legitimacy of President Obama were on voters' minds.

Apple's co-founder, on medical leave since January, said he could no longer do his job. The company said he will be replaced by Tim Cook, the company's chief operating officer. Jobs was elected Apple's chairman.

Mail carriers are already tasked with making rounds in extreme conditions. Now they’re training to deliver emergency medications to San Diego County residents in the event of a bioterror attack -- like one involving anthrax.

But Scientists Still Puzzled By Die-Off On Calif. Coast

This week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested she might release details of the 1990s ethics investigation into then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. An investigative committee, on which Pelosi served, concluded that Gingrich had used tax-exempt funds for partisan purposes.