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The first real votes of the 2016 presidential election are rolling in tonight. We mark the occasion with questions, answers, links to NPR's coverage — and a walk down memory lane.

The researchers want to study the first few days of an embryo's development. They must now seek approval from an ethics committee in the United Kingdom.

"You can't write this stuff. It's unbelievable how it happened," says the journeyman enforcer who took a break from the minor league AHL to play in the NHL's showcase game.

Clinton has embraced and touted her potential to be the first female president much more this year than in 2008. But she doesn't have all Democratic women wrapped up. Women under 45 are for Sanders.

Members of an anti-drug nonprofit in Watertown head to Capitol Hill this week. The group wants U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer to help…

President Obama plans to ask Congress for $755 million in cancer-research funding in his 2017 budget. That's in addition to $195 million already approved in 2016.

An HPV vaccine that protects against nine strains of the virus that causes cancer gets the nod from the CDC. So does a vaccine for a rare but often lethal form of meningitis.

British regulators are giving scientists the first government sanction to edit DNA in human embryos. Scientists want to do this to learn more about human development, but critics fear it will lead to designer babies.

Researchers tested whether loosening restrictions on the work schedules of doctors in training would lead to more harm to patients.

Global oil and gas price drops have done a number on BP's net income, which fell to $196 million from $2.2 billion in the year-ago quarter. The company plans to cut thousands more jobs.