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Once upon a time, most of the millions of people who travel on India's vast train network brought their own food or bought it from vendors at stations. Sharing meals could turn strangers into friends.

It's a country of booming urban centers and poor and lawless rural regions. A pending peace deal between the government and the guerrillas promises to end this divide.

The main character in Emma Donoghue's new novel "The Wonder" is a little Irish girl who refuses to eat. She says she's been kept alive by "manna from heaven." NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the author.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest about the state of industry-sponsored research and how it might influence medical and policy advice.

NPR's Scott Simon and Tom Goldman discuss the Cubs and the curse, the Paralympic games in Rio, and one wheelchair racer who is stirring up a discussion about euthanasia.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about religion, politics and optimism with Eboo Patel, president of Chicago's Interfaith Youth Core.

29-year-old Harry Burkhart was found guilty of setting nearly 50 arson fires in Los Angeles during a four day span over five years ago. But the same jury is deadlocked about his sanity.

In going after Hillary Clinton on gun rights, Trump suggests her Secret Service detail disarm and "see what happens." It recalls an earlier statement that "Second Amendment people" could stop Clinton.

The history of African-Americans and the California Gold Rush is a complicated one, and often overlooked. But it's part of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Sports columnist Kevin Blackistone discusses the week in sports, from news about approved drugs taken by U.S. athletes to ongoing national anthem protests that have caught on with high school teams.