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Political campaigns run on lots of hard work, ideas and, of course, cash. While corporations are prohibited from contributing directly to candidates, they are nevertheless big players in the political money game.

The American Film Institute has issued a list of the Top 10 American films within 10 favorite genres. Fresh Air continues a series exploring those film greats, featuring interviews with notables represented on the list.

Sir Michael Marmot, a professor of epidemiology at University College London, has found links between low income and poor health. He says a key part of it is chronic stress, which increases down the social hierarchy.

Now that Stanford, Harvard and other top American universities are offering free online courses, will students one day be able to get course credits and degrees online from these schools without having to pay for it? Stanford's president says his school "can see moving in that direction."

To add a little drama to your summer, NPR Books is focusing our annual summer readers' poll on young adult fiction. Share your favorite YA titles: Your nominations will decide the books that make our top-100 list of the best YA fiction ever written.

President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., released emails Tuesday confirming he was informed in June 2016 that the Russian government was working to help his father win the election, and that he shared that information with other top campaign officials.

For 15 years, Elson has graced magazine covers and runways as a top fashion model. But these days, it's her voice that's attracting attention. Elson's debut, The Ghost Who Walks, is a roots-rock album with a bit of a dark side; it was produced by her husband, musician Jack White.

Cartoonist Jim Woodring is at the top of his darkly delightful game in his new graphic novel Congress of the Animals, a surreal fable featuring strange creatures that sting, bite, drip, ooze and squelch.

According to the Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA, films with casts that were less than 11% minority did worse at the box office than their more diverse counterparts.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion, a day after announcing he would step down. Abe, 52, was to remain hospitalized for at least three or four days, his doctors say, leaving the care of his scandal-scarred government with his top deputy, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano.