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The presidential candidates are forming their "closing arguments" to voters as Election Day approaches. We'll discuss why they have landed on those strategies.

A 93-year-old grandmother and her 42-year-old grandson just finished a tour of all 63 U.S. national parks. They became internet celebrities along the way.

Gold -- like oil -- is crucial for Venezuela's government. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with CNN journalist Isa Soares, who won an Emmy for her coverage of the gold trade in the country.

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

Is it possible to make a top ten list of albums everyone can agree on? We're at least going to try!

The trial of Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak is over, but for many Egyptian citizens the verdict was not what they had hoped for. Foreign Policy has this slideshow on the protests held over the weekend in Tahrir Square.

Forbes Magazine just released its rankings of the best universities in the U.S. They're based on graduation rates, student satisfaction, post-graduate debt and success.

A top executive at America's biggest bank explains why it's giving $20 million a year for five years to revitalize Detroit.

For the past eight years, jazz critic Francis Davis polls his fellow critics on the best jazz records of the year. He shares this year's top jazz picks.

A Swiss banker has pleaded not guilty to charges he helped thousands of Americans evade paying their taxes. Raoul Weil was one of the top managers at UBS, a Swiss bank that helped nearly 20,000 Americans hide their assets in secret accounts.