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With both conventions over, it's on to November. For a look at where the candidates stand, and what they think they need to accomplish in the next eight weeks, Steve Inskeep speaks to regular Morning Edition contributor Cokie Roberts.

Teachers from the nation's third-largest school district have gone on strike despite an offer of a 16 percent pay raise over four years.

The government will reduce its stake in the insurance giant to less than 50 percent for the first time since the 2008 bailout.

University of New Mexico professors and researchers have been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to implement a science enrichment…

Both GOP nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama have hit the campaign trail for the homestretch to Election Day. Host Michel Martin hears from two political insiders about what's in store for the final weeks: Ron Christie, former advisor to President George W. Bush, and Anita Dunn, former advisor to President Obama.

Animal conservationists are worried that hundreds of Gunnison's prairie dogs relocated from the city of Santa Fe to the El Malpais National Conservation…

The FBI alleges Tony Mack accepted thousands in exchange for influence over a construction project.

Researcher say parents don't need to worry about their babies being emotionally scarred by crying while they're learning to sleep. Techniques like controlled comforting and camping out for managing infant sleep are quite OK, they say.

"Mockbusters" are straight-to-video knockoffs of Hollywood hits. They've got a long and glorious history stretching back to '50s B-movies, and NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports they're having a mini-renaissance in the age of SyFy and Netflix streaming.

In a study with about 4,000 Thai schoolchildren, a vaccine for dengue fever works well against some strains of the dengue virus. But the overall level of protection was lower than hoped for. The results suggest that a vaccine for dengue fever can be developed eventually.