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The largest human composting facility in the nation is soon opening in Maryland, with capacity to handle 2,000 bodies a year. It's meeting a growing demand for eco-friendly interment options.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on President Trump's pattern with threatening strikes on Iran.

Historian Micki McElya revisits one September afternoon in 1968, Atlantic City, when the Miss America pageant collided with a changing country. Her new book is Liberation Summer.

Federal prosecutors moved to drop their case against David Hearn, blaming Reflecting Pool damage on a "botched installation" rather than vandalism. That has implications for others who were charged.

For years, many Cubans hoping to leave the island looked to the United States. Now, with legal pathways largely closed, a growing number are heading to Brazil instead.

Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people.

The shipyard was previously the site of radioactivity research conducted by the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. A lawsuit filed two years ago alleged that radioactive waste has not been adequately cleaned up by the U.S. Navy.

They are the first reported deaths linked to a massive outbreak of the intestinal illness that began in May.

SEIU California is instead backing an effort to tax corporations whose employees make little enough to qualify for Medicaid and other public benefits.

Most prominent among those on the list are current Oakland City Councilmember Kevin Jenkins and Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, a former longtime member of the city council.

Newsom and state lawmakers must figure out how to spend the state's main climate fund — a leftover issue that didn't get resolved by June.

The outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.