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Jechon Anderson, 11, is the youngest person killed by a gun in Chicago this year.

Would getting rid of every blade of grass do anything to solve the crisis on the Colorado?

Guy Delisle's new graphic novel Pyongyang documents the two months he spent overseeing cartoon production in North Korea. Delisle's images depict his sense of the obedience of North Korean citizens to their government and the bleakness of his surroundings.

Van Cliburn, the only solo musician of any genre to receive a ticker-tape parade in New York City and the first classical musician to sell a million albums, died Wednesday. The Texan soared to world fame in 1958 when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.

Flooding hit more than 10 villages in the drought-stricken Fars province after heavy rains swelled the Roudbal river, one official said.

Kent Lee has worked at State Farm for 22 years. He said his biggest priorities are safety, economic opportunity and infrastructure.

Corporations, cities and hospitals around the world have been victims of cyber extortionists who hold data hostage, extorting millions of dollars.

In heavy fighting across the Gaza Strip, the latest battles between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have left more than 20 people dead in the past three days, with more than 80 killed in the past month. Fatah leaders now warn that the precarious "unity government" with their Hamas rivals may not last.

The Republican leader in South Florida alluded to his inability to appear in the first GOP debate as part of the catalyst for his decision to leave the race.

Hurricane Ike is expected to make landfall — as a Category 3 hurricane — late Friday or early Saturday south of Galveston, Texas. Officials issued a mandatory evacuation order and warned of "certain death" for those who don't leave, but NPR's Ari Shapiro says plenty of people remain.