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Gender equality in the workplace has been stalled for years. And one big reason behind this trend is something called the "winner-take-all" approach to business.

President Barack Obama is meeting with the leaders of Asian and Pacific countries in Hawaii this weekend. The president is expected to use the Asia-Pacific economic summit to emphasize his effort to pivot the U.S. away from Europe and towards the Pacific in the coming century. NPR's Ari Shapiro is travelling with the president and has more.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's family began vacationing on Campobello Island, in the Bay of Fundy, in the early 1880s. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park used to attract around 150,000 visitors a year, including tours of FDR's home. Maine Public Radio's Jay Field reports it's still trying to recover from economic hard times, while attracting new visitors.

The legal community reacts to the Senate's planned confirmation vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, including more than 1,700 law professors who say he displayed a lack of judicial restraint at a hearing last week that should disqualify him.

Do you listen to audiobooks at regular speed or do you crank it up? Listeners have been going back and forth on social media.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominee for FBI director. Here's what you need to know about Kash Patel.

Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi, takes the oath of office in Cairo Saturday. He is the country's first civilian president. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon.

The newest Fatal Fury fighting game will include a curious choice of playable characters, including soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and Bosnian-Swedish DJ Salvatore Ganacci.

London's Heathrow airport reopened yesterday evening, after a fire Thursday at a substation knocked out electricity to the complex.

When Pierce Forde was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle in the 1990s, a stranger stayed by his side. Forde says he wouldn't be alive without that man's help.