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We talk to a reporter from St. Louis and a local mayor about the floods, which are beginning to recede in some places but expected to keep spreading.

Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr, a 20-year House veteran, is projected by the AP to lose in the Missouri Democratic primary to progressive activist Cori Bush.

Pfizer and Moderna are making vaccines now, but several other companies are working on others using different technology.

No drinking, no drugs, no tardiness, and they have to run a seven-minute mile. They're the Chief Mountain Hotshots, the all-Native firefighting crew from Montana's Blackfeet Reservation.

An entire division of 8,000 Iraqi soldiers surrenders in southeastern Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Iraq's 51st mechanized division was the main defender of the key port city of Basra. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

The city of the day is St. Louis. Find out what distinguished this city in 1904 and in 1965.

Detroit will celebrate the life of Aretha Franklin on Friday, August 31st at 10 a.m. EST. Over two dozen people -- including heads of state, a record...

It was on this date in 1349 that the Black Death was thought to be at its peak in London. And it was on this date in 1787 that that Arthur St. Clair became the seventh President of the Confederation Congress.

What you eat during the day can affect how well you sleep at night. Sleep researchers explain the impact of diet, caffeine and alcohol on sleep health, and share a list of sleep-supporting foods.

The gleaming stainless steel arch in St. Louis is, officially, a monument to westward expansion. But in The Gateway Arch: A Biography, Tracy Campbell argues that the monument's meaning is more complicated. He tells NPR about the controversies, the clout and the costs behind the 630-foot structure.