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Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.

The federal raid at a Hyundai and LG battery plant construction site in Georgia comes as the South Korean automaker has made significant efforts to manufacture cars and components in the U.S.

The bandleader and pianist was one of the leading Latin musicians of his generation. He won multiple Grammys and was recognized as an NEA Jazz Master.

NPR talks with Evelyn Farkas, a former Pentagon official who's now executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University, about prospects for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

After NPR reported on a Department of Homeland Security tool to check the citizenship of registered voters, three U.S. senators are expressing concern about accuracy, transparency and privacy.

The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. Some states told NPR they're passing on the grants as a result.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires stop burning.

The killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at a college in Utah is the latest in a string of acts of political violence in recent years that have spanned the political spectrum.

NPR's Tamara Keith examines President Trump's response to the Charlie Kirk assassination along with his reaction to a 2017 political shooting and other moments of political violence.

Trump says three "sinister events" disrupted his speech: a frozen escalator, a broken teleprompter and a too-quiet sound system. The U.N. says Trump's team is at fault, but it opened an investigation.

Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

Bestselling children's writer Allan Ahlberg has died at the age of 87. Many of his books -- like Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman -- were illustrated by his wife, Janet, who died in 1990.