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Deadly tornadoes struck Mississippi overnight.

Ballot measures cover a lot of ground this year — from minimum wage to school calendars to one involving doughnuts and bear hunting. NPR's Charlie Mahtesian takes NPR's Scott Simon through the list.

Dozens of makeshift centers were built but stand empty. Officials want to revive a stagnating economy and attract young workers to cities by turning the structures into affordable housing.

Former President Donald Trump recently referred to his political opponents as vermin. That language echoes language used by Adolf Hitler, and raises questions about authoritarianism rising in the U.S.

Violence and protests continue following a disputed election. Venezuelans awoke to news Sunday that a small group of armed men tried to overtake a major military base in the central city of Valencia.

As the war drags on with Russia, Ukrainians are desperate for symbols of hope and normalcy. At the Paris Olympics, Ukrainian athletes are doing their part: winning gold to help buoy the country.

The budget is expected to be a record high for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, which will start July 1.

Nearly 320,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, leaving 10 times as many grieving. It's all playing out in a culture that's long marginalized grief as something we're supposed to get over.

The National Weather Service had issued heat advisories for parts of at least 15 states, including in several major cities such as Philadelphia, Columbus and Boston.

Dawn Gilbertson, a columnist covering all things travel for the Wall Street Journal, talks about the best and worst airports in the U.S.

You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen — she wrote the screenplays for Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards. But when she's not writing, Taraporevala enjoys taking photographs. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Harvard Law School professor and noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree has died at age 70.

"The language of type can be immensely clarifying," says author Merve Emre. In The Personality Brokers she describes how a mother-daughter duo started a multi-million dollar "people sorting" industry.

The singer talks about the challenges of making what became one of the most important records of the 1990s, dealing with the fame it brought and how she didn't like its hit song until recently.

Restaurant critic Pete Wells tries to keep the customer in mind with all of his reviews. "We show awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers," he says.

Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.

During a September 2006 job interview, the White House counsel's office asked a U.S. attorney why he had "mishandled" an investigation of the close Washington governor's race. The interview with John McKay, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, was for a federal judgeship — a post McKay did not receive.

Gary Shteyngart's spectacular, sprawling new comic novel centers on a billionaire businessman, who, on the verge of ruin, embarks on a cross-country trip aboard a Greyhound bus.

Amazon.com has generated a dustup over the way it filters adult books. Books with any gay content at all — racy or not — no longer have a sales ranking. That makes those titles more difficult to find using Amazon's search function. Amazon says it is fixing the problem.

For the first time since 1992, Florida Fish and Wildlife is reviewing manatee protections in different parts of Indian River County's waterways.

The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

Amid intense fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are in full force this weekend. The United States and France put forward a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the fighting and for U.N. peacekeepers to patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Gay spouses of service members have long been denied the substantial benefits available to heterosexual couples. Now, Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act means gay married couples can look forward to more equal treatment from the Pentagon.

A high school graduation in Richmond abruptly turned to terror Tuesday following a shooting after the commencement ceremony.

Virginia Democrats vie for seats in primary elections that have proven expensive and competitive.