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Surging consumer confidence is spurring sales for Halloween. Retailers are forecasting an 8 percent increase in sales for costumes, candy and decorations. Those gains are strong given low inflation.

The course highlights the zigzagging line separating North Carolina's 10th and 11th Congressional districts. One expert says ugly districts are a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.

The Puerto Rican government has prioritized getting power back to hospitals. Many clinics and doctors' offices, like other small businesses on the island, still don't have electricity.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Mary Jo Bowling from Curbed on why Victorian architecture came to be associated with everything spooky and scary.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with CARE Country Director Wouter Schaap. The humanitarian organization is ramping up its efforts in Syria where thousands have been displaced by ISIS' presence, the country's civil war and other fighting.

The first charges in the special counsel investigation give more details about what was said and done relating to Russia during the presidential campaign, particularly in the spring and summer.

A new approach seeks to equip university students with the tools of fact-checkers.

Citing Weinstein's "decades of reprehensible conduct," the Producers Guild of America voted unanimously to remove him from its ranks, which it said was an "unprecedented step."

People hoping to get federally subsidized coverage on the marketplaces should make sure their 2017 premiums are paid and that they filed the correct documents with their 2016 taxes.

"Frankly, I hope the indicted George just goes away for a while," says George Papadopoulos, a certified public accountant from Michigan who shares a name with the former Trump adviser.