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NASA's Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn in a few hours, but we'll always have the shots it took of icy volcanoes, hexagonal storms, ethane lakes and ripples in Saturn's rings.

The Northern Berkshire County community of Adams, Massachusetts is holding its annual town meeting Monday.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WBEZ listener Corinna Christman of Chicago, Illinois, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

City of Plattsburgh Democrats are going to the polls today to send a candidate on to November’s general election.

The final day in the 2012 political marathon has arrived. Here's an hour-by-hour guide to key times across the nation on Election Day.

Microsoft said the tablet is made to work perfectly with Microsoft's new operating system.

Texas is set to execute a man with an IQ of 61. But the Supreme Court has banned the death penalty for the mentally impaired.

Two studies suggest that antibiotics early in life may contribute to childhood weight gain. Experiments in mice and a look at the weight of more than 11,500 British babies point in the same direction.

The government says that the poverty rate for 2011 was 15 percent, essentially unchanged from the year before. That still means that more than 46 million people lived below the poverty line last year. According to one economist, "the bad news isn't as bad as it has been."

Last year, JPMorgan Chase acknowledged that it lost $6.2 billion in a hedging strategy gone awry. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has spent months investigating how the losses occurred, and on Friday, it will publicly grill some of the executives involved.