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As President Trump heads to China this week, a new NPR-Chicago Council-Ipsos poll finds most Americans think U.S. tariffs have hurt both economies, and that the Iran war is bad for America.

Hundreds of women gathered in Chicago to relive their youthful days of jumping rope at the 40+ Double Dutch Club's National Play Date. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Sept. 17, 2023.)

"I feel like Mount Rushmore was the greatest thing with which I was ever involved," Donald "Nick" Clifford said of his three years working on the iconic American monument.

A group of American nuns and Catholic women has traveled to Rome for a pilgrimage to the sites where there are traces on frescoes, mosaics and sarcophagi that show how women played an important role in the church in the early centuries of Christianity. Groups say women once held "co-equal roles with men."

In 1954, Linda Brown was the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregated public schools for black and white students. Brown was 76.

Justify is the horse to watch at Saturday's Belmont Stakes. If Justify wins, it would cap a remarkable run and rare Triple Crown victory following wins at the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.

The U.S. Postal Service has big plans to replace its aging fleet of 165,000 gasoline-burning delivery vehicles. And some are pushing for the electric trucks to be built by union labor in Wisconsin.

Marine 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey was killed in Iraq on Aug. 21. His superiors described him as a model Marine and a natural leader. Cathey was killed by an improvised explosive device barely one month after he arrived in Iraq. Reporter Eric Whitney of member station KRCC reports.

Police are seemingly targeting reporters at protests across the nation - sometimes causing significant injuries. Why?

With much of the nation locked down, Americans are finding creative ways to celebrate weddings, birthdays and other events that would normally bring people physically close.