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The event's marketing pitch borders on self-parody.

People are taking stock of the damage after heavy rain, flooding and tornadoes swept through over the weekend. The American Red Cross is calling it the deadliest start to tornado season in nine years.

Syrian state TV said thousands of fighters and civilians await evacuation from rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Some ambulances came under brief fire, but now buses of evacuees are leaving the city.

The BBC ends its afternoon news program with the bong of the Big Ben clock. When 8-year-old Phoebe Hanson heard the clock would go silent for three years of repairs, she wrote to the BBC to offer her gong and her voice. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Hanson and BBC editor Roger Sawyer.

After nearly two days of questions and clarifications, the jury was unable to agree on a unanimous verdict for or against Michael Slager, who shot and killed Walter Scott after a traffic stop.

Wal-Mart conquered the suburbs, but its future may lie in smaller stores in dense city neighborhoods. And in our grab-and-go times, freshly prepared meals are a big part of its urban strategy.

In 2002, Lincoln Chafee was the only Republican senator to vote against authorizing the use of force to oust Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Some Republican colleagues referred to him as "the missing Linc."

Two days before the first of President Obama's executive actions on immigration were to take effect, the new rules have been put on hold by a federal judge's ruling in South Texas.

An NPR/Marist poll finds that 30 percent of Americans do something else for pay in addition to their full-time jobs. But those extended workdays can mean giving up an important social support system.

Colorado cake shop owner Jack Phillips refused to create a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding, citing in part his artistic expression. The justices hear arguments on Tuesday.