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Many brokers feared the new federal health law would make them obsolete. But more than 40 percent of people who signed up for insurance via Kentucky's state exchange used a broker.

President Barack Obama is calling for quick action for the stimulus bill. The president's new tone of urgency may be working.

The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees report released Tuesday showed the funds will be exhausted a couple of years sooner than expected. That's largely because high unemployment rates mean a lower level of payroll tax receipts being paid in to both programs. David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal talks with Steve Inskeep about the financial future of the programs.

General Motors and Chrysler still need billions more in government aid. Both firms presented their restructuring plans to the Treasury Department on Tuesday. Including the money they've already received, both automakers are requesting a total of $39 billion. The firms also plan to slash a total of 50,000 jobs.

Rachel Martin talks to Abraham Denmark of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served as deputy assistant secretary of Defense for East Asia in the Obama administration.

The new UAW president says his members are being left out as the industry transitions to electric vehicles so he's applying pressure on the auto companies and the White House to do more for workers.

The few female scientists at MIT in the late 20th century found themselves faced with hurdles related to their gender rather than their research. So they did what scientists do: they quantified it.

Hilary drenches Southern California, flooding roads and closing schools. An anti-corruption crusader wins the presidency in Guatemala. Plus, how to optimize your air quality at home.

Pierce Brown's rip-roaring Romans-in-space series Red Rising seemed to come to a triumphant end with last year's Morning Star. But what was the cost of that triumph, and where will it lead?

Amid disquisitions on the importance of thank-you notes and a hilariously graphic description of a mammogram, Ellis occasionally ventures into more weighty territory in her first work of nonfiction.