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The damage left by Hurricane Maria has disabled running water for many in Puerto Rico. People are driving to mountain springs to fill empty soda bottles and heading to rivers to do their laundry.

Hundreds of flights were canceled at Newark as air traffic controller shortages, old tech and construction collided. The Department of Transportation a major fix.

Sara Kehaulani Goo's father recently discovered the 28 letters, written from 1946 to 1947, stashed in a wooden box hidden at the bottom of a chest in her late grandparents' bedroom.

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.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied allegations of sexual misconduct against him. "I'm not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process," Kavanaugh said in a TV interview.

In the 1960s, an underground network of women in Chicago called the Jane Collective helped others seeking abortions.

The endangered deer species on the Florida Keys is being threatened by rising seas, and that is raising uncomfortable questions for wildlife managers. The deer are the size of a golden retriever.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to actor Jacki Weaver about her new film Poms, as well her breakthrough in Hollywood coming at the age of 63.

The GSA conference with the clown, comedian and mind reader is the kind of embarrassing story any administration wants to avoid on its watch, especially at a time of fiscal austerity when federal workers are coming under attack from some conservatives and a general election looms for a president seeking a second term.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said this week that the Harriet Tubman $20 bill redesign won't happen until 2026, at the earliest, but not everyone is waiting until then for the change.