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If President Trump wins reelection and a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans with preexisting health conditions could lose access to health insurance or pay much more.

Egyptian authorities are preventing six Americans, including the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, from leaving the country. They work for non-governmental agencies that were raided by Egyptian security forces last month.

Thomas Wheeler led the Justice Department's civil rights unit through a period of transition. He told lawyers he never intended to stay in the job permanently.

The White House correspondent's story about administration emails created an uproar. Then a key part of it turned out to be wrong.

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday of complications from a fall. He was 84. Vonnegut was critical of war and skeptical of government. One of his last public acts was to criticize the war in Iraq.

More than 1,200 people have been charged for crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and investigators are building cases against more suspects.

A new poll shows Ebola is the one of the top health concerns of Americans, below access to health care and affordable health care. Robert Siegel talks to Frank Newport, editor in chief at Gallup.

If it absolutely, positively had to get there overnight -- or as soon as possible in 1860 -- you'd have to put it on the Pony Express. Their riders could travel from Missouri to California in a recording-breaking 10 days. But a little over a year after the first rider set out, the company closed under major debt. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with the author of a new book offering a revisionist history.

Peter Carey and Rachel Kushner are among those who are withdrawing in protest from the PEN American Center's annual gala. Kushner says she is uncomfortable with Charlie Hebdo's "cultural intolerance."

NPR's Melissa Block reflects on the results of an annual survey about what most scares Americans. The nation's health care system, pollution and another world war rank in the top 10.