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Inquiries lead from one federal office to the next, with no clear answers. At one Army Contracting Command, a protocol office employee says that “voicemail has been down for months.”

Federal officials have moved the national wildfire preparedness level to a five out of five. Crews and equipment may be harder to come by for new or growing wildfires.

The younger Scarry, also an illustrator, found a draft of Best Lowly Worm Book Ever! in his dad's Swiss chalet. He says all that was missing was the final art, "so that's what I did."

Seth Meyers opens up about his time on Saturday Night Live, his relationship with his parents, and how ambition led him away from his strengths.

Sony's Playstation games once ran solely on discs. But with advances in technology, physical discs are unnecessary, and the company will soon stop making them.

The suspended player faces charges of sexual abuse involving a girl who was 14 years old at the time.

"I need a strong house," says Angel Joel Alvarez Lopez, whose roof was ripped off his home. Rain is pouring in. Now, he's looking ahead to months of building and trying to determine his next steps.

Ed Gordon talks with Paola Mendoza and Michael Skolnik, co-creators of the new film, On the Outs, about three girls struggling with life in and out of juvenile detention. Mendoza also stars in the film as an incarcerated, drug-addicted young mother.

Latinos are more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 but less willing than others to get a vaccine, figures indicate. In Connecticut, efforts are under way to overcome their hesitancy.

People convicted of minor crimes years ago are suing to overturn a Pennsylvania law that bars them from working full time in nursing homes, locking them out of a fast-growing sector in the economy.

How Floridians see ourselves and how the rest of the world sees us are often very different.

Stock markets rallied on Friday, but it was not enough to erase the losses from earlier in the week. Investors are fretting that the recent market turmoil could mean another recession.

Sen. Barack Obama has addressed the simmering controversy about racially charged remarks made by his longtime pastor. In his speech in Philadelphia Tuesday, Obama denounced the remarks and engaged in a conversation about the broader issues of race in America.

Officials say one student was killed and eight were injured in a shooting at a STEM school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Two suspects are in custody.

President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to address the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.

D.C.'s pro basketball and hockey teams will stay in their arena in downtown Washington, a reversal of earlier news that they'd move to a brand new arena across the Potomac in Alexandria, Virginia.

CFO Jimmy Patronis removed Dr. Lisa Gwynn from the Florida Healthy Kids Board for expressing concerns about COVID-19 vaccine access in the state for kids younger than 5. She talks about why she's still worried.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Martenzie Johnson of ESPN’s Andscape about the Celtics 106-88 win over the Dallas Mavericks Monday night in Game 5 of the NBA finals.

Irma is now a Category 1 hurricane. It came ashore in the Florida Keys and hit the rest of the state very hard. Miami, in particular, had high winds, heavy rain and flooding to deal with.

Retail Technology consultant, Adam Dumey talks to NPR's Leila Fadel about how to use AI to shop for the holidays.

De Lavallade's husband of 59 years, dancer Geoffrey Holder, died on Oct. 5. "He was my biggest fan and I was the same way with him," she says. De Lavallade's one-woman show is called As I Remember It.

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

Much of the abortion debate centers on when life begins. It is essentially a religious question, but there is no consensus on the answer. (Story originally aired on Weekend Sunday on May 8, 2022.

Three former employees at the London-based brokerage have been charged by the Justice Department with participating in a criminal scheme to rig an interest rate that anchors the world's financial system. It's alleged that the three brokers from ICAP colluded with a trader at Swiss bank UBS.

A convicted murderer serving multiple life sentences is awaiting execution in Arizona. He argued that the state's clemency board is illegal because three members previously worked in law enforcement.