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This month brings riveting novels about dogs, Hollywood stars, small towns and characters with bigger woes than just the sweltering summer heat and humidity.

The Mohammed VI Tangier Tech City would stand in monument to China's expansion into a North African nation on Europe's doorstep. But experts say the project has stalled.

You can’t talk about Second City’s roots or modern improv without talking about Viola Spolin and Jane Addam’s Hull House in Chicago, where Spolin -- a young daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants - worked in the 1920s.

The writer and civil rights supporter died in 1967. Her ashes spent years in a filing cabinet and at NAACP headquarters. Her family this week held a service at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

NPR's Alex Chadwick reports that marine explorer Bob Ballard has found evidence of a 7000 year old human settlement under 300 feet of water in the Black Sea. Ballard believes the civilization was flooded after melting ice age glaciers caused the Mediterranean to surge over its banks and flow into what was then a shallower lake. The discovery could shed light on the biblical story of the great flood.

When a U.S. Airways jetliner landed in the Hudson River yesterday, a plane full of passengers braced for the worst. But a calm-headed staff and an ace pilot prevented a disaster. Now some are saying the pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, could run for mayor.

The victory cements the legacy of Patrick Mahomes as one of the all-time greats.

NPR pop critic Ann Powers highlights new songs from Brit Taylor, Molly Parden, The Brummies and C.A. Jones.

Scott Severs and his wife Julie Bartlett have been able to pay their mortgage and they have a healthy emergency fund. So he donated his federal rescue check, though he acknowledges not everyone can.

Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.