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The scorching temperatures are happening during a destructive wildfire season and a brutal drought. The average maximum temperature across the country on Tuesday was 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, Japan, the U.S. and other nations grapple with calls for global disarmament amid the threat posed by North Korea.

Not since World War II have there been so many people who've fled their homes due to conflict. And children are hit especially hard by the crisis.

As many as 6,000 people died in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. Patricia Bellis Bixel, who wrote about the storm and how the city was rebuilt, details the operation for Debbie Elliott.

The Department of Health and Human Services will make 296,000 doses available in the coming weeks, and expects a total of 1.6 million doses to be available in the U.S. by the end of the year.

While enrollment has grown at Kentucky's public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical college system, the state has also taken a hit to two key affordability measures.

New York State Police say the man was arrested after they received word from the FBI that that he made "threats to kill a member of Congress."

The 22-year-old Spaniard's win against 38-year-old rival Novak Djokovic at Sunday's Australian Open makes him the youngest male player to win all four major tournaments.

Donald Trump is indicted on felony charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. How conservative media are covering the indictment. Fitch strips the U.S. of its Triple-A bond rating.

In the 1990s, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page figured out how to use the structure of the Internet — the way pages link to one another — to put the most relevant items at the top of a search list. Their discovery transformed their garage startup, Google, into the Internet's top search engine, a household name and even a verb. NPR's Rick Karr reports.