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Some of the All Things Considered staff whose voices you don't always hear on air share their favorite stories that aired on the show in 2024.

If lawmakers can't reach a deal to avoid a shutdown, many federal workers would be furloughed, while essential functions like Social Security payments would continue.

Anti-death penalty advocates hope President Biden will grant clemency to 40 people on federal death row. He has already commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others.

A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, injuring an unknown number of people in what authorities say was a suspected attack. The driver was arrested.

Over a decade later, none of the bodies of the 239 passengers and crew members abroad have been recovered.

But several hurdles remain to avert a government shutdown ahead of a Friday midnight deadline.

Millions of Americans are planning to travel in the coming days. Here's what a potential government shutdown could mean for flying, driving and more -- and what you can do to prepare.

Lawmakers will have to authorize additional borrowing to pay the government's bills, but there's no reason it has to be done right away -- except for politics.

The consumer financial watchdog says customers of the top three banks lost more than $870 million over seven years due to a lack of safeguards against fraud on the Zelle network.

Richard Allen, who was convicted in the 2017 killings of two teens who vanished during a winter hike, received the maximum prison sentence in a case that's long cast a shadow over the town of Delphi.