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Mexicans cast ballots on Sunday to elect their next president. The candidate well ahead of the others in polls is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who has tried twice before for the presidency.

The battlelines on climate change have been drawn for decades: business interests vs. traditional environmental groups. Over the past year, however, a new group of activists have joined the debate. Rev. Jim Ball argues that what we do for the Earth, we do for Jesus.

Standard and Poor's downgraded debt ratings for General Motors and Ford Thursday. The automakers say they have enough cash to avoid crises. But having their credit rating lowered to "junk bond" status is going to make it more expensive for them to borrow.

On April 12, 1955, the world heard one of the most eagerly anticipated announcements in medical history: Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine worked. The vaccine turned a disease that once horrified America into a memory.

Republican Darren Bailey, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, will face Democrat and billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker on the Illinois ballot for governor in November.

Activists from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court today. Some were celebrating. Some were protesting.

NPR's Noel King talks reporter Jennifer Glasse about Afghanistan's presidential election and reports of historically low voter turnout due to Taliban threats and flawed voting procedures.

Nicole Ogrysko <"oh-GRIS-coh"> of Maine Public Radio reports on loggers in the Maine woods who have been squeezed by high prices for diesel and equipment.

Because people with Down syndrome are very likely to develop Alzheimer's, they are ideal candidates for experimental drugs meant to halt the disease.

Aiden McCarthy's parents, Kevin and Irina, both died in the shooting, which left five others dead and more than two dozen wounded.