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GOP candidates with military experience are competing in swing districts. After seeing Democrats pick up seats with a similar strategy in 2018 and fielding veterans in 2020, the party sees an opening.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keri Blakinger, author of the new memoir Corrections In Ink, which is about her path from Olympic figure skating dreams, to drug addiction, and then to prison.

Higher mortgage rates and home prices have pushed the monthly payment to buy the median-priced home in the U.S. up more than 50% since the start of last year. Many first-time buyers can't afford it.

The Colorado Rockies have been blasted by six dust storms since last December. That's the worst it's been in at least two decades. And dust doesn't just make the snow look bad. It makes the snow melt fast.

A Texas rapper sets his rhymes to country beats. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with singer Cowboy Troy about the hybrid music style he calls "hick-hop." Troy's new album is called Loco Motive.

Gavin Dahl shares a recap of his trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, including highlights from within the fairgrounds and shows off-site as well. This program features Jazz Fest audio from Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr., Leyla McCalla, Lilli Lewis, Arturo Sandoval, DakhaBrakha, Tank and the Bangas, Charlie Wilson, and Lil' Nathan and the Zydeco Big Timers. Favorites from gigs around the city include Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet, The Soul Rebels, Cimafunk, and Dezron Douglas with Brandee Younger.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, on where bipartisan negotiations over legislation on gun safety stand in the Senate.

As protests intensify in Iran over the arrest and death in custody of a 22-year-old woman, the country's top diplomat promises an investigation into what happened but downplays the demonstrations.

To stop Russian forces from advancing to Kyiv, the Ukrainian military blew up a dam, flooding a nearby village. Seven months later, residents are still pumping water out of yards and houses.

To make up some ground in the Georgia race for governor, Stacey Abrams is hoping to harness any energy around abortion rights by pointing to success on the issue in Kansas and appealing to emotions.