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Manufacturing accounts for 24 percent of the German economy. In the U.S., it's only 11 percent. What makes German manufacturing so strong and resilient?

An NPR/Marist poll shows 65 percent of contract workers are men and 62 percent are under 45. Contract workers gain flexibility, but when business goes down, they're often the first to be fired.

Ronnie Greene's new book explores a case dating back to the days after Hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans police officers shot six unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in East New Orleans.

A marathon on Capitol Hill this week yielded new details about the scale and nature of Russian interference in the 2016 election, but no easy solution for preventing the next effort by the Kremlin.

After GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy invoked the late night host's name, Kimmel went after him and the Republican health care bill, pulling it apart point by point for an audience that might not normally care.

With Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in the headlines for sexual misconduct, The Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan says it's time for Democrats to reassess the legacy of Bill Clinton.

An Alabama pastor said he received a voicemail from a man purporting to be a Washington Post reporter and offering money in exchange for damaging remarks about Senate candidate Roy Moore. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with former Washington Post executive editor Len Downie Jr. about the hostile climate journalists are facing.

Police took nearly an hour to respond to a 911 call from a woman who said her mentally ill brother was acting erratically. About a minute after officers arrived on Tuesday, one shot and killed him.

Gavin Eugene Long turned 29 the day police say he killed three officers in Baton Rouge. The former Marine apparently promoted himself as a life coach, nutritionist and self-improvement guru.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin says preventing suicide among military veterans is his "number one clinical priority," and that he is working to fill some 45,000 open jobs in the agency.