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The rising Mississippi River has broken through a half-dozen levees and forced major bridges to close. The record high water is consuming towns in its path.

From county courthouses to country stores, ghost towns to lost bridges, the Anderson Ferry to the Great Miami Railroad Bridge, Satolli Glassmeyer and his…

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's Gardening Commentator, Ketzel Levine, and author Michael Pollan about the social history of, and reflected by, roses. ("Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" by Michael Pollan. ALSO "The Writer in the Garden" -- selected writings about the garden on two audiocassettes. High Bridge Company, St. Paul, MN.)

Many second and third-generation immigrants must figure out how to bridge their American and family homeland identities.

In 1901, the SS City of Rio de Janeiro went down in thick fog at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, killing 128 people — most of them immigrants from China and Japan.

Clean-up is underway after a series of deadly tornadoes ripped across the state over the weekend. The storms shattered homes and businesses, leaving a long recovery ahead.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cinco Paul, the co-creator of Schmigadoon!, about the storyline and music of Season 2, which premiered on Apple TV+ on April 5.

With just over three weeks until Election Day, Dr. Michael McDonald, an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida, discusses early voting patterns in 2016.

Maliha Zulfacar left Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded in 1979. She now splits her time between a teaching post in California and one in Kabul, where she's leading an oral history project that she hopes will help Afghans make sense of the impact of three decades of war.

President Obama has been using campaign-style events to push for a major overhaul to the nation's health care system. The president held three town hall meetings on health care last week. Obama's focus has been fighting the information war against opponents of the Democrats' health plan.