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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, about the thousands of homeowners in California at risk of losing insurance as the risk of wildfires grow.

A new coronavirus variant — known as delta plus — has cropped up in the U.K. There's concern it could be more dangerous than the highly contagious delta variant. What does the science actually show?

Officials are looking into four confirmed cases of the dangerous bacteria discovered in the sprays. Two deaths associated with the bacteria are being investigated.

Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included recurring parts on Evil and Girls, has died after fighting cancer for two years.

Internal Facebook documents show how the pro-Trump Stop the Steal movement proliferated on the world's biggest social network between the presidential election and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Students began protesting outside the university center nearly two weeks ago, citing moldy dorm rooms and other problems. They say they won't leave until their demands are met.

With students back at school this fall, classes sound almost normal — they just look a little different.

Actor Alec Baldwin says he is "full cooperating" with the investigation into how he discharged a prop gun on a New Mexico movie set Thursday, killing a crew member and injuring the film's director.

Some of our earliest childhood memories often involve books. The drawings and characters we encountered as children can trigger deep feelings when we see them again as adults. But many of us carry around scattered memories of a few lost books — those whose titles we forgot long ago, but that we are desperate to find today. NPR's Andy Bowers talks with Book Stumpers founder Harriet Logan about one way to solve these minor mysteries.

Since the ceremony first began in 1929, the Oscars have always been held at venues in Los Angeles. But Charles Monroe-Kane of Wisconsin Public Radio reports on a whimsical effort to bring the awards show to Green Bay, Wisc. Think your town's got what it takes to attract the glitterati? Share your opinion -- send an e-mail to NPR, telling us why your city should be the next Hollywood.