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Baseball takes another step in its recognition of the Negro Leagues' contributions to the sport when 39 candidates are voted on at the end of this month in a special election for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Journalist George Weller was in Nagasaki shortly after the Japanese city was hit by an atomic bomb in 1945. He wrote newspaper stories on what he saw, but military censors prevented their publication. The writer's son recently found carbon copies of the originals.

In an address to the nation from New Orleans Thursday evening, President Bush outlined a massive reconstruction plan to restore areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed.

On the 50th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker, Tony Award-winner Andrea Martin stars as Dolly Levi at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Still best known for her sketch comedy work on SCTV, Martin talks with NPR's Liane Hansen about her stage and screen career.

Democrats have chosen a former meteorologist to be their nominee for Illinois' 17th Congressional District. Eric Sorensen beat five other candidates Tuesday.

In Florida, Lake Okeechobee's water level dropped enough that dry grasses on the lake floor caught fire. But the weather isn't the only reason for the state's water woes, the author of a new book says.

In April 1975, Bich Minh Nguyen and her family fled Saigon and settled in Grand Rapids, Mich. Her memoir, Stealing Buddha's Dinner, captures what it was like to be Vietnamese in the conservative, largely white town — and the role that food played in her assimilation.

This week's puzzle winner Rob Olmstead plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz and this week's puzzle winner Susan Gilmore of West Hartford, Conn.

Irving's stint with the Brooklyn Nets is ending after multiple controversies, including a suspension over an antisemitic social media post and missing games because of his refusal to be vaccinated.