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Wildfires have caused major destruction and led to massive evacuations in California. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Stephanie O'Neill.

Lee gave us over six decades' worth of superheroes we could identify with, characters like Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, who reacted to superpowered crises in believably flawed, human ways.

A deadly shooting unfolded at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Six people were also injured in the attack, which authorities said was being investigated as a hate crime.

Most U.S. states have a sales tax on menstrual products. But some states have repealed the tax on the grounds that it's unfair to women. But the repeals come at a cost to consumers and state revenues.

Conditions are deteriorating at a camp in Syria where thousands of families of ISIS members are being held. There's little medical care or aid and people are getting more violent and desperate.

Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Africa's best-known writers and gay rights activists, died Tuesday at 48. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kenyan blogger and journalist James Murua about Wainaina's legacy.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer revolutionized talk around sex in America. At 90, she's letting her own walls come down in a new documentary. As a Holocaust refugee, she says it's her duty to speak up.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rick Baedeker, executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, about the situation at the Santa Anita racetrack, where 21 horses died this season.

Homeland Security officials are saying the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is at a "breaking point." Central American families are streaming across the southern divide in ever increasing numbers.

Many Democrats are focused on winning back white, working-class voters. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, an emerging 2020 candidate, has been reaching out to voters of color in big cities.