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The state's historic drought has been bad for farmers but good for gold seekers, who can now pan areas that have long been buried under feet of water.

The area in dispute is a plateau where three countries — Bhutan, India, and China — converge. India and China have a complicated history of boundary disputes and fought a 1962 war near this stretch.

Russia recently introduced a new warship in the Black Sea, an area of heightened tension since Russia's seizure of Crimea two years ago. NPR's Corey Flintoff was invited on board.

What if the song "Baby Shark" stopped after just two stanzas? There's no Daddy Shark in sight at a Chicago-area zoo where an epaulette shark pup hatched this summer.

Starvation has been a weapon of war for multiple parties in the conflict. Even in areas not under siege, it's harder for civilians to afford basic food items, with prices dramatically inflated.

Even with gas prices at record highs, people in urban areas aren't flocking to mass transit. Public transportation has a lot of work to do to lure people back.

With gangs controlling the most destitute areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince, Haitians say the country's greatest need is safety. Many blame Jovenel Moïse for the collapse of law and order.

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

In a rare area of bipartisan agreement and after years of little regulation, lawmakers in both chambers say the tech industry needs to do more to protect its users' personal information.

Most of the largest civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas in the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions on policing.

Democrats won back the House in 2018 because they beat GOP candidates in areas like two of New Jersey's swing districts. But two freshmen there are split on how to handle impeachment.

Josh Levs of member station WABE reports that Indian American residents of the Atlanta area are mourning friends and relatives who perished in Friday's earthquake. They're also raising money and organizing relief efforts to assist the survivors. It's not clear how many have come from Gujarat to the Atlanta area. There are an estimated 40,000 Indian Americans in Atlanta. Community members say as many as 5,000 could be from Gujarat

NPR's Peter Overby reports that most political contributions come from very few people. One of the areas of the country that has among the highest concentration of big-time donors is Greenwich, Connecticut. Some say residents there get special attention in return from the political establishment, and campaign finance reformers would like to limit how much money candidates can get from people who do not live in the areas they represent.

Deborah talks with Randy Stickles, the agent in charge of the Calexico station for the United States Border Patrol. They discuss the sharp increase in the number of illegal border crossings in that area. Stickles believes that it's the result of Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego, which is approximately one hundred miles west of Calexico. Operation Gatekeeper has dramatically reduced the number of illegal crossings near San Diego...but illegal immigration simply seems to be shifting to areas not as heavily patrolled. They also discuss the increase in the seizures of marijuana coming across the border...Stickles estimates that the numbers have doubled in the last year.

A Mexican immigrant gardener in the Bay Area has just been awarded a $100,000 National Purpose Prize for his work raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Hispanic kids to college. Catalino Tapia saved all his money to send his son to college. When his son graduated, he got the idea to create Bay Area Gardeners Foundation to help other Hispanic youth get a college education.

Daniel talks to Leslie Savin, advertising critic for The Village Voice. She says that there is a new trend in t.v. advertising to convince viewers that they can assert their individuality by buying mass market products... Red Dog beer and Saab cars.

An audio file has divided the internet as people debate whether the voice says "Yanny" or "Laurel." Lee Miller, an associate professor in neurobiology, physiology and behavior at the University of California, Davis, explains why some people hear different words.

Whether performing country-blues or roots-rock, Greene has the voice, talent and confidence of a performer well beyond his 26 years — a man whose sound seems at once achingly intimate, surprisingly energetic and unburdened by adherence to genre.

Alan Cheuse reviews the recently re-printed historical novel "The Keepers of the House" by Shirley Ann Grau. Grau was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for this novel. The book is published by Louisiana State University and is part of the Voices of The South Series.