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For cancer patients, death hovers over everything. It feels sometimes that Death is sitting in the corner, looking at his watch. And when it comes to funerals, there's really one major issue: How do we want to be remembered?

President Obama is delivering a major speech at Cairo University. Egypt is a long-standing ally of the U.S. Workers have been busy cleaning the city ahead of Obama's arrival.

A new political party in Germany has made saving the working class and the country's welfare system rallying points for attracting votes. Die Linke, or the Left Party, is drawing support from mainstream parties with a radical message.

Milwaukee public health officials had an idea for reducing deaths by drug overdoses. They bought vending machines and then stocked them with life-saving supplies — such as Narcan.

In this installment of Weekend Edition's Summer Adventure Series, NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with Sarah McLester, of Charleston, S.C., about her trip to Mongolia.

A worker at a funeral home managed to locate the family members of an ailing woman. She didn't realize she was uncovering a family secret that went back to the 1940s.

Puerto Rico is cleaning up after Tropical Storm Ernesto dropped more than 10 inches of rain on parts of the island. Crews are working to restore power to more than 700,000 customers left in the dark.

The Justice Department's third-in-command talked about the department's pledge to fight hate crimes, and shared he was close in age to Matthew Shepard, whose death inspired a federal law helping to prosecute people fueled by hate.

Heavy rains, flooding and destructive winds and tornadoes snarled traffic and knocked out power up and down the East Coast.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) urged support for President Biden, and many in his audiences seemed ready to give Biden another chance.