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Flooding from storms can sometimes lead to contamination from sewage in the drinking water supply. Scientists are trying to develop a quicker test for one troublesome contaminant: norovirus.

The former major leaguers headlined a list of suspects named in a huge drug trafficking bust by Dominican authorities. But a judge says there's not enough evidence. Dotel still faces a weapons charge.

A U.S. military court judge in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has set a trial date of Jan. 11, 2021, though a number of other deadlines would need to be met for the trial to begin then.

What's working in this city of 2 million people, and why hasn't it worked in other parts of the country? The outbreak in Congo has now claimed 2,000 lives and is the second biggest in history.

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek returned to hosting the program after cancer treatment.

As Hurricane Dorian heads for the eastern Florida coast, NPR's Ailsa Chang checks in with the mayor of Panama City, Fla., — which was devastated last October when Hurricane Michael hit the panhandle.

Jasmine Cho makes cookie portraits of people like Takao Ozawa, who was denied U.S. citizenship on the basis of race in a landmark case. Her goal: to make social justice lessons more palatable.

When Walter Mugwe was a teenager in Nairobi, he was angry, frustrated — and getting into trouble. Then came yoga. Now he's 30. Is the practice still his passion?

Because most elections truly are local, it would be nearly impossible for a foreign adversary to touch them all with a single effort. But that diversity also comes with security challenges.

We have a recap on the week in politics.