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Repeated flooding from severe weather is forcing communities in Florida to plan for climate change. But the high costs suggest some homes and neighborhoods will have to be abandoned.

Comic, songwriter and frequent Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes died Sunday at age 75. He was also a member of The Rutles and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Engineered meat, immigration raids on chicken plants, and the big target on the backs of big technology companies are some of the business stories that made headlines in 2019.

The U.S. census counts incarcerated people as residents of where they are imprisoned. In many prison towns, that has led to voting districts made up primarily of prisoners who can't vote.

The new federal budget has more money for a national suicide prevention hotline, and the Federal Communications Commission says it will designate a 3-digit dialing code to call it.

Nissa-Lynn Parson didn't think it was odd for her son Cayden to ask for a magnifying glass. Cayden and his brothers used it to burn holes in a newspaper and ended up setting the lawn on fire.

NPR's Steve Inskeep remembers his long-time colleague Cokie Roberts — one of NPR's "founding mothers" — who died in September at the age of 75 of complications from breast cancer.

The man accused of attacking people in a rabbi's home in New York over the weekend is now facing federal hate crime charges. The FBI said Grafton Thomas seems to have been driven by anti-Semitism.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Kurdish journalist Hiwa Osman and Farhad Alaaldin, of the Iraqi Advisory Council, about protests against U.S. airstrikes on bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia.

Nils Melzer, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, says detaining and fining Manning with the aim of coercing her to testify runs afoul of U.S. international human rights obligations.