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Actor Mary-Louise Parker has written a memoir, Dear Mr. You, in the form of letters to important men in her life — among them her beloved father and the accountant who had to tell her she was broke.

Across the country there are reports of beleaguered and harassed election workers hanging it up. In Texas, one election administrator in a heavily Republican county just resigned.

According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, died after a prolonged illness in Moscow at age 91.

The number of deaths by firearm have nearly doubled in the past 10 years and accounted for 75% of the homicides reported in 2021, according to the Texas Council on Family Violence.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Kate Fitzgerald, a senior editor at American Banker, about what consumers should know about digital payment services like Zelle and Venmo.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Luis Moreno Ocampo, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, about an EU proposal for a special war crimes court in Ukraine.

Since NPR reported on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder at Fort Carson, more soldiers and their families have reported neglect at their bases, too. Mental health specialists who work with military families say that the problem is widespread and common.

Federal investigators easily smuggled bomb-making materials past guards at federal buildings, a new report from the Government Accountability Office says. Mark Goldstein, the GAO's director for physical infrastructure issues, testified before a Senate panel Wednesday on the report's findings. He offers his insight.

U.S. charities have received close to $2 billion to help in Haiti since the earthquake two years ago. But it's not easy to determine exactly how all that money is being spent and what kind of impact it is having.

Families of victims of two Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking a judge to reject a plea deal with the plane maker. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to attorney Paul Cassell, who represents 15 of the families.