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Valeria Luiselli, who was born in Mexico City and lives now in Harlem, released two slim, multinational books this year: the essay collection Sidewalks and her time-jumping novel Faces in the Crowd.

"We just wanted to give back to the city with all they have gone through," Tegra Mbele, who scored the winning goal for the Lewiston Blue Devils, told a local newspaper.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy says his best writing features his New York hometown. His latest book, Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, is no exception. "There's a richness of Albany that I couldn't possibly exhaust," says Kennedy, who is now 83.

After the shelter-in-place orders were lifted and the suspect's body was found, residents of Maine's second-largest city are "seeking normal" again.

The country's Independence Day was a study in contradictions. The effort to mark the occasion in the capital Islamabad kept bumping up against anxiety over protest marches against the government.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott about what we know about the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and recovery efforts being made by the city.

The Supreme Court ruled that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances. The rulings were unanimous.

Wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing at least the temporary shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility.

Some urban teenagers don't get the chance to explore the wilderness. The Timbuctoo Institute, a summer program in New York State, gives city teens a chance to do just that.

Frustration has been building for years among some Oakland residents over high crime rates, a persistent budget deficit, and police chief turnover. A recent FBI raid of the mayor's home has intensified their arguments for her ouster.