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Pickup truck-size ice chunks have left the freight ships stuck in Lake Superior. The U.S. and Canadian coast guards have sent in icebreakers to help the ships get through.

The San Francisco Bay Area lost a beloved resident this week. Claude, an albino alligator that lived at the California Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 30.

The online forum Reddit has proven to be a key source for investigators of high-profile crimes, including the fatal shootings at Brown University.

As Dorian batters the Bahamas, Grand Bahama Disaster Manager Don Cornish describes the emergency response to flooding and other effects of the hurricane.

Writer Sally Adee says scientists are looking into ways to manipulate the body's natural electrical fields to try and treat wounds, depression, paralysis, and cancer. Her new book is We Are Electric.

The same fire that consumed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge is rapidly eating through nearby timber

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning economist Glenn Loury about his memoir: "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative."

Legislators toppled France's government in a confidence vote, a new crisis for Europe's second-largest economy. Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him.

The Trump administration says it has arrested more than 700 people in Washington, D.C., in its mission to crack down on crime. Experts say it's difficult to draw conclusions from that about public safety.

Environmental officials are inspecting toxic waste sites in southeast Texas that were flooded and potentially damaged last week.