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Steve Inskeep talks with Mayor Brad Bailey of Groves, Texas, one week after the region was preparing for Hurricane Rita. Bailey says that the town has had a lot of cleanup work to do, but luckily escaped major flooding or chemical pollution.

Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, vehemently defended himself in a Capitol Hill hearing on the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Brown said limited resources and a lack of cooperation from state and local officials hampered FEMA.

A day after Tom DeLay's indictment, which forced him to step down as House majority leader, members of both parties try to assess what it all means. DeLay faces a single count of criminal conspiracy relating to state campaign finance laws.

Artists in Port-au-Prince are using bits of garbage and flotsam to create works reflecting poverty, voodoo and the urban Haitian experience.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

U.S. automakers are facing many challenges, including foreign competition. But it's not just from Japan and Europe. There's fierce competition coming from South Korea too. And it's being felt in unexpected places, such as Alabama, where a billion-dollar Hyundai plant recently opened. Tonya Ott of member station WBHM reports. This story is the third in a series on the U.S. auto industry.

Chestnut trees are valued for their beauty, and many people want them. But few seedlings are available because of a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep talks to Marshall Case, president of the American Chestnut Foundation, who's trying to save the trees.

Military researchers say 17 percent of troops back from Iraq show signs of problems such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and guardsmen and reservists may be at greater risk than their active-duty counterparts. The suicide of South Carolina guardsman Jeffrey Sloss sheds light on the need to seek help.

The federal government tells employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws by discriminating against people with disabilities.

Commentator Liz Pulliam Weston says that many students take out loans to pay for college, but if they are not careful, the debt can hurt their financial life for years or decades. Weston is the author of Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Protect and Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future.

President Biden marks the approaching 1 million death toll from COVID in the U.S. More people have died from COVID-19 than died from AIDS in the US since that pandemic began decades ago.

Since the war has mainly shifted to the east of Ukraine, residents and business owners have been returning to parts of the Kyiv region, including hard-hit Bucha.

These days, teachers and parents are on the lookout for attention deficit disorders in kids. But what happens if you're an adult with ADHD?

Lance Armstrong recaptured the lead in the French Alps during Tuesday's leg of the Tour de France. Armstrong's Discovery Channel teammates played a pivotal role in his resurgence. If the team continues to perform well, it will be difficult for competitors to deny them a victory.

African musicians Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi have dealt with Zimbabwe's political upheaval in far different ways. They explore their differing views on two new CDs. Banning Eyre has a review of both.

NPR's May Louise Kelly talks with journalist Dalia Hatuqa about her friend and colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while reporting in occupied West Bank for Al Jazeera.

The first ever image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy has been released by scientists, who say it shows Albert Einstein was right about gravity.

U.S. transport planes will soon begin airlifting Rwandan troops to serve as African Union peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' emails from the past week. They comment on a story out of Iraq about a Muslim man who buries the unclaimed dead, Melissa Block's quest for the elusive Wok Hay, and the reporter in the White House pressroom affectionately referred to as the Goyal Foil. We also share a brief message from sound designer Randy Thom about the progress of our Search for Sound project.

When David's son hears Sam Cooke sing, he thinks of his dad's enduring love, enthusiastic embrace ... and his fish fries.

China bows to international pressure and announces it will revalue its currency. The yuan will be revalued by 2.1 percent, less than what the United States wanted and perhaps not enough to satisfy congressional critics who want protectionist measures to stem the flow of Chinese imports. The Yuan will now be pegged to a basket of international currencies.

Jakob Dylan discusses the new Wallflowers CD, Rebel, Sweetheart, and tells Melissa Block about the ways his songwriting has changed over the course of five albums.

Editor and writer Walter Kirn's latest novel, Mission to America, is about a fictional quasi-religious group, the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, seeking new converts to help them survive. The topic is one Kirn has experience with: When he was 12, Kirn's family became Mormons.

In the wake of Hurricane Stan, friends and relatives in Guatemala have been in touch with Guatemalan-American commentator Francisco Goldman. He says they are wondering why bad luck keeps coming their way. Goldman is author of The Divine Husband and The Long Night of White Chickens.

A talk with George Clooney about the new movie he's co-written and directed, Goodnight, and Good Luck. The movie covers the conflict between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.