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Republican nominee for Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, is getting plenty of support from the Trump camp. But Youngkin has been noticeably absent from their rallies to support him.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the MLB playoffs, the NBA opening week, and about the NBA's recent list of the 75 greatest players of all time.

Every night in Baghdad, convoys of big rig trucks fan out across the city to supply food and fuel to the tens of thousands of soldiers. They are escorted by at least six military gun trucks.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is barely known in the U.S. Most of his wealth was created through the privatization of Mexico's telephone company. Slim recently bought a 6.4 percent stake in The New York Times Company.

Pastor Larry Sweeten of the nearby Liberty Faith Fellowship, who used to be a miner on the same shift as the men who were trapped on Aug. 6, talks about his work with the families. He says the families of the trapped miners are beginning to prepare for the worst, as hope ebbs for recovering the miners alive.

The bipartisan Senate bill aimed at easing the nation's housing crisis includes billions of dollars in grants and loans for homebuyers. It also has tax breaks for builders and other businesses. Critics say the bill doesn't go far enough to help struggling homeowners.

The presidential candidates have spent millions of dollars painstakingly crafting their messages and images. But what words pop into voters' minds when they hear the names John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards? Voters in South Carolina offer an earful.

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Marc Morial, the National Urban League's president and CEO, about the civil rights organization's semi-annual State of Black America Report.

Sex and the City took in more than $55 million last weekend — almost twice what Warner Brothers had hoped for the film based on the HBO series. At a Washington, D.C., movie theater, a mostly young, female audience was gushing over the movie's high fashion, stylish cocktails and frank talk about men and sex.

Scientists hope to diagnose autistic children while they are still infants by probing unusual electrical signals in their brains using electroencephalography. EEG is also providing hints about precisely how autism affects the brain and which therapies are likely to help children with autism spectrum disorders.