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Scientists keep track of nearly 20,000 pieces of space debris, from the size of an apple to that of a school bus. A visualization from the Royal Institution lets you watch the orbiting trash pile up.

With the election just eight days away, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton are making campaign trips. The Republican nominee is doing a bus trip in electoral vote-rich California. President Clinton is in the Midwest. Today he is is taking credit for a bit of sunny economic news. He told a St. Louis crowd this morning that the country has the smallest budget deficit since 1981. He says that just proves that the economy is on the right track. Republicans credit the healthy economy to their fighting for spending controls. We have reports from both political camps; NPR's Elizabeth Arnold is with the Dole campaign, and Mara Liasson is with the Clinton campaign.

Forty years ago Thursday, radio storyteller Jean Shepherd took a crowded bus from New York City to participate in the March on Washington. The next day, he went on the air and shared the experience from his perspective in the crowds. He had been surprised by the good-natured attitude of most of the demonstrators, and by how they had been received by regular people walking around in the city. We hear an excerpt from his broadcast of Aug. 29, 1963.

Prepare yourself. If you are on the road on Oʻahu next week, expect delays as 50,000 more motorists hit the road. Jon Nouchi, deputy transportation services director for the City and County of Honolulu, rode TheBus to his interview with The Conversation and shared tips for commuters.

A bus driver from Canada answered the call. The safe-cracking enthusiast went to Red Emma's bookstore and two days later he opened it. The only downside is what he discovered inside: nothing.

A train from Cairo hit the back of another train stopped near a station outside Alexandria. More than 120 people were injured, according to the country's health ministry.

Columbus, New Mexico, has a rich border history. Pancho Villa stormed across in 1916. Today, kids on the Mexico side take a bus — driven by the Columbus mayor — across the border to go to school.

The coastal corridor from Lagos to Abidjan is shaping into a West African megalopolis. Starting in Lagos, Nigeria, we navigate the chaos, the checkpoints, and the road that could change it all.

Today on The Conversation, we're spotlighting our talented kama’aina who have received national recognition.

Detroit has long been a city divided among racial and economic lines. As the city attempts to recover, some see the change as an opportunity to heal those old wounds.