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Bobby McDonald's wife, a nursing student who works at a hospital, fell asleep after a long shift. McDonald thought he had a good shot at winning a seat on the Walton, Ky., city council, so he didn't wake her up to vote.

With the election over, President Obama and Congress face major challenges in the coming weeks — namely the so-called fiscal cliff. But with the power breakdown remaining the same with a Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate, how will lawmakers come together and break the gridlock? Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks about this with NPR's senior political correspondent Mara Liasson as well as the outgoing senators Joe Lieberman and Kent Conrad.

The band's name has become shorthand for everything reviled about modern rock. But the band is among the most successful money-makers in the music industry — and they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Back in the 1970s, U.S. drivers faced two separate oil crises that led to long lines at gas stations. Many Americans feared it would be a recurring nightmare, but gas lines have been rare over the past three decades.

The retired four-star general was on a fast track from an early age. David Petraeus was a West Point graduate with a doctoral degree from Princeton, who made a national name for himself by helping the Army rethink how it fights wars. Petraeus resigned as CIA director Friday, citing an extramarital affair.

Author David Rain is an opera fan, and after watching Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, was left with one question: Whatever happened to the son in the story? His new book, The Heat of the Sun, aims to provide an answer.

A famous documentary maker has inspired more than a hundred young people to take part in an oral history project to collect peasants' stories of the Great Famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s. An estimated 36 million people died during the famine, which the Chinese government blamed on natural disasters.

Despite the danger, millions of people continue to text or email while driving. The desire to stay connected is often hard to resist, so here are a few tips to help keep your hands on the wheel.

With baseball playoffs becoming a distant memory, NPR's Mike Pesca talks to host Rachel Martin about basketball becoming more like baseball. People are increasingly trying to identify more valuable statistics for individual basketball players.

Host Rachel Martin talks with Gregory Johnsen about his new book detailing the U.S. campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen. The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia covers the drone strikes and the moral dilemma posed by the U.S. war against al-Qaida.