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Former President Jimmy Carter turns 99 today. There were celebrations yesterday at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.

This week the U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term with big cases on guns, abortion and government regulation.

Republican state lawmakers in Oregon have staged walkouts to prevent passage of legislation proposed by Democrats. An effort to curb the tactic is now caught in a legal battle.

English singer Rose Betts explains the story behind her song, "Irish Eyes."

The United Auto Workers union strike enters its third week, but the history of their fight goes back to the 1930s.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Jonathan Cosin of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Parents often lament having to get a new pair of winter boots for their kids every year as they grow out of their old ones. A group of Northwestern University students came up with a fix for that.

Montana inmates with severe mental illness can languish for months in jail. They are too ill to stand trial, and there's only one state hospital that can treat them.

China has secretly given a life prison sentence to a prominent Uyghur scholar of Uyghur culture and religion.

A pro-Russian politician has won Slovakia's parliamentary elections, throwing NATO's unity amid the Russia-Ukraine war into question.