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The economic rescue package just passed by Congress will push this year's budget deficit above $3 trillion. Such huge levels of deficit spending used to set off alarm bells in Washington, but no more.

"You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are," says one of several D.C.-area pastry chefs who wrought their support for gay marriage into elaborate wedding cakes.

Obamacare made it easier for people to leave jobs to start their own ventures and entice others to join, knowing they could buy insurance independently. Some entrepreneurs worry that could change.

While in Philadelphia for the DNC, Michel Martin visited a South Philly institution to taste a Philly classic: water ice (also called Italian ice). John's Water Ice has been open since 1945.

A cybersecurity lawyer who worked at a law firm tied to the Democratic Party is the second person charged in John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.

The Department of Veterans Affairs isn't waiting for rural vets to get vaccines on their own. Instead, the department is using medical records to bring the most vulnerable to pop-up vaccine clinics.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Stephane Grattier at Boulangerie Christophe in Washington, D.C., about the baguette being added to UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage" list.

Stock prices Tuesday had their biggest one-day gain in five years. Prices jumped after the Federal Reserve decided to cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. Fed policymakers said they remain concerned about the slowing U.S. economy and suggested that they may cut rates again.

On this tax deadline day, President Obama plans to highlight some of the tax cuts included in the economic stimulus plan. Yesterday, the president delivered a lengthy speech about how the U.S. got into the recession, where the economy is now and his plans to encourage a more prosperous future.

The book by veteran journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is a rushing torrent of anecdotes and recollections. A reader may plunge in at any point and pull up a pail of Trump at full tilt.