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TV critic David Bianculli reflects on the Emmy ceremony held last night and looks ahead at the new fall TV season. If you only catch one new show this year, Bianculli recommends The Muppets on ABC.

In 2010, Mayor Cory Booker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg devised a plan to improve Newark's failing schools. Dale Russakoff recounts their efforts in The Prize.

When former Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race, a superPAC supporting him was left with millions of dollars in the bank. So where did it go? And what are the rules?

About a third of people over the age of 79 are taking a cholesterol-lowering statin to prevent the first occurrence of a heart attack or stroke. Proof is scant that the benefits outweigh the risks.

We're not making this up. President Mahama said he was like a dead goat. He later issued a correction: He's actually like a living goat.

The former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, Stewart Parnell, had been convicted of knowingly shipping tainted peanut butter that was linked to the 2009 deaths of nine people.

Germans are grappling with what could be as many as a million asylum-seekers to their country this year, but most say they welcome the new arrivals. A sizeable majority of Germans today think of their country as a land of immigrants, who are vital to keeping it strong as the traditional population ages and shrinks. One of these new Germans is an immigrant from Mozambique who has become a brew master, soccer coach and member of the town council in an eastern German hamlet, where extremists have been attacking asylum-seekers.

The Broad contemporary art museum opened in Los Angeles this weekend, and NPR explores how the museum's audio tour addresses the challenge of how talk to kids about contemporary art.

Actor Jack Larson has died at the age of 87. He was best known for playing cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in the TV series, The Adventures of Superman. Larson went on to become a playwright and librettist.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Center for Public Integrity about a solvent found in common paint strippers that can trigger heart attacks and asphyxiation, causing rapid death.