Like David McCullough's other books, this onesucceeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller; it reads like a novel and is packed with information drawn from painstaking research.
Six months ago, California's deadliest wildfire almost completely destroyed the town of Paradise. Survivors are still struggling to find places to live in a region with a chronic housing shortage.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas for a response to a story in The Atlantic, written by David Frum, proposing the U.S. cut legal immigration by half.
The president campaigns in Panama City Wednesday. At the same time, local officials are upset that they're still waiting for federal disaster aid — seven months after Hurricane Michael.
A Ninth Circuit panel overturned a lower court's injunction on the administration's policy requiring asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico as they await court proceedings in the U.S.
Valerie Castile's $8,000 gift to a Minnesota high school wiped out lunch debts for about 100 students. Her son, a cafeteria worker who often bought lunch for needy kids, was killed by police in 2016.
Officials say one student was killed and seven were injured in a shooting at a STEM school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Two suspects are in custody.
Most New York City residents oppose a plan to charge a fee to drivers who enter the crowded city center. But studies show that once such charges are in place, public opinion shifts in favor.