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Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

In this StoryCorps, two park rangers recall being part of a team specially trained to brave the heights and wash the four faces of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore — something no one had ever attempted.

President Trump has been diagnosed with a relatively common medical condition called chronic venous insufficiency that is affecting the veins in his legs, according to the White House.

NPR asks Dr. Thomas Maldonado, a vascular surgeon at NYU Langone Health, about President Trump's chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis and what the public can learn from it.

CBS has announced that it plans to cancel Stephen Colbert's late night TV show next year, citing financial reasons. But at least two U.S. senators have questioned whether politics played a role.

This week, President Trump didn't want to talk about a thing. If you know what that thing is, you'll get at least one question right. Plus: Emmys! Babies! Tennis!

Calls for generational change and dissatisfaction with the status quo have been at the center of campaigns by younger candidates. While that has lifted some to victory, others have fallen short.

School vouchers are going national and the federal student loan system is getting an overhaul. Here's what to know.

"It will test every single shred of creativity we have to continue to try to serve our mission," says one public media executive, as Congress ends federal funding for public broadcasting.

A bipartisan coalition has joined forces to push aggressive new sanctions on Russia and believe the souring relationship between President Trump and Vladimir Putin has created a new opening.