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There have been 74,155 fires in Brazil so far this year, mostly in the Amazon, and about half of which have ignited in just the past month. Some world leaders are raising the alarm.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WCBE listener Todd LaPlace of Dublin, Ohio.

Officials say the tsunami was triggered by underwater landslides caused by volcanic activity on the island of Anak Krakatau.

Vázquez assumed the governor's chair after previously saying she wasn't interested. Now she says the island deserves "certainty and stability."

Stocks slid early on, amid escalating fears that the U.S.-China trade war will further damage a worldwide economy that's already slowing. But the market recovered by day's end.

Lord & Taylor, considered to be the oldest U.S. department store, is being sold to an online clothing-rental startup called Le Tote for $100 million.

The fires are ravaging already vulnerable koala habitats and those of other animals. An ecology professor in Sydney says it is probably the worst fire season on record for native animals.

A powerful typhoon ravaged Japan on Saturday, bursting river banks and flooding low-lying areas and killing more than a dozen people. The typhoon has been downgraded to a tropical storm.

The Alabama Shakes singer will release Jaimelater this summer. The first single, "History Repeats,"is a punch-drunk and funk rumination on humanity's inevitable arc toward self-defeat.

NPR's Scott Simon honors the legacy of theatrical producer and director Hal Prince, who died this week at the age of 91.