With two weeks until the midterms, Democrats are doubling down on state races. In Nevada, after flipping the statehouse from red to blue in 2016, the DNC is making their push to elect the first Democratic governor in twenty years.

In 2015, Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist with Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics, was involved in a motorcycle accident that crushed his left foot. In the months that followed, he underwent six different surgeries as doctors struggled first to save his foot and then to reconstruct it.

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to talk about the Mueller report with Rosalind Helderman.

NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, ahead of former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress.

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. Muhammad Ali may be the most famous American athlete ever.

Muhammed Ali is the subject of book by Jonathan Eig which chronicles the boxer’s toughest bouts, his social activism, and his sometimes chaotic personal life.

On the next Fresh Air, we feature Terry’s interview with singer-songwriter Margo Price, who brought her guitar and played some of her songs.

Musician and composer Jon Batiste is the music director and band leader of Stay Human, the house band The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

An instrument on NASA's Mars InSight mission that was supposed to be driven into the planet's soil is stuck. It's designed to measure Mars's internal temperature.

Natasha Lyonne is a survivor. On the Netflix series Russian Doll, which Lyonne co-created and stars in, her character Nadia keeps dying and returning to life. Determined to figure out what is happening to her, Nadia relives the same day countless times, each time trying to steer events toward a different outcome.

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On the next Fresh Air Natasha Lyonne talks with Terry about co-creating and starring in the Netflix series Russian Doll, in which her character keeps dying and coming back to life—and doesn’t understand why.

President Trump plans to hold a second summit with Kim Jong Un - citing that the North Korean leader hasn't lived up to promises he made in June.

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. This summer when President Trump proposed a sixth branch of the U.S.