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After just three days of deliberations, a jury reached a verdict in the high-stakes trial between Apple and Samsung over patent infringement. The federal jury found that Samsung infringed on several of Apple's patents, and it awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages.

Host Scott Simon has more on a surprising fact about gibbons: on helium, the apes sound like opera singers.

President Obama and Mitt Romney are both vying for the traditionally red state of North Carolina. While some Republicans see no way Obama can win, two political strategists with long careers in the state, one a Republican, the other a Democrat, say Obama has a very good chance of repeating his 2008 upset in the state.

Side trips into tax returns and birth certificates notwithstanding, both presidential candidates say they are the best bet for the beleaguered middle class.

NPR political editor Ron Elving and host Scott Simon go back in time to big moments in political conventions of the past.

Finding a good-sized, inexpensive barrel, previously used to age bourbon, is not so easy, as a hot sauce maker on the hunt found out. But they can be found, and when they are, these barrels experience a remarkable afterlife.

Comedian Mike Birbiglia talks about his new movie Sleepwalk With Me about his life and sleepwalking disorder. Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader, nominated for an Emmy for his character Stefon, says he needs a character to be funny.

Host Scott Simon talks to accountant David Chan of Los Angeles about his expertise on Chinese restaurants. He's eaten in more than 6,000 of them.

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. His words about "one giant leap for mankind" became the stuff of history and were sealed forever in the memory of those who were lucky enough to hear them. The moonwalk was the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space race. He was 82.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is dead at the age of 82. He was the first of just 12 Americans to step on the moon from 1969 to 1972. Guest host Laura Sullivan speaks with science journalist Andrew Chaikin, who knew Armstrong and wrote about his contributions to the space program.