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The Toronto International Film Festival is underway. Many likely Academy Awards contenders were unveiled at this year's festival.

Hillary Clinton's remark that "half of Trump's supporters" are a "basket of deplorables" touched off a firestorm in political press, but it seems to barely register for some voters.

So far this year, more than 1 in 4 donations in New England are from people who died after a drug overdose — a much higher rate than in the U.S. overall, though it's not clear why.

Florida is one of the most competitive battlegrounds in the country, in part because of conservative seniors. Many live in Sumter County, which has the oldest median age of any county in the country.

Our sense of smell isn't simply a powerful trigger. It's a draw to scientists — and to a flourishing subculture in Los Angeles, where amateur perfumers collect fragrances like others collect stamps.

Remote Alaskan villages are some of the last places in America patrolled by unarmed officers. But an officer's death last year has challenged ideas about policing on the last frontier.

The National Institutes of Health has promised to put more money into research on an illness that many people feel has been dissed by the medical establishment.

Many hurdles are in the way for these former Cold War foes, including the 50-year-old U.S. economic embargo, Cuba's dismal human rights record and new waves of immigrants fleeing the communist island.

David Greene talks to two top political strategists — Eric Fehrnstrom and Doug Hattaway — on what it takes to turn a campaign around, and if they think GOP nominee Donald Trump can do it.

Democrats are watching bellwether elections. Steve Inskeep and NPR's Scott Detrow talk to Tom Perez — chairman of the DNC — as he begins a national unity tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders.