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Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding was coming for parts of the South and Midwest. Areas are already waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned some deadly tornadoes.

Incoming president Donald Trump has vowed to end the CBP One app, which people outside the U.S. use to book appointments to petition for asylum.

As Joe Biden is inaugurated, he is hoping to bring America together. But the country's modern divisions didn't begin and end with Trump.

A team of British climbers used xenon gas to decrease the 6 to 8 weeks usually needed to acclimate to the thin air on the world's highest mountain.

The northern regional capital has become a frequent target of Russian drones, missiles and guided bombs. Now, Ukraine's top general says at least 50,000 Russian troops have massed across the border.

China reveals its priorities. Biden-bashing crosses the aisle in Senate debates. And Biden's student loan forgiveness plan quietly goes live as some of those it was intended to help are shut out.

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried about what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

Declare a national emergency to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election. That's an idea in one of the documents received by a special congressional committee. The latest on investigating January 6th.

Health officials in Houston, Texas, have discovered mosquitoes carrying the virus that causes St. Louis encephalitis in seven areas of the city. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels with one of the health department's "mosquito men" as he makes his way through Houston's extensive sewer system, trapping mosquitoes and sending them back to the lab for testing. (6:15) CORRECTION, aired on All Things Considered Sept. 6, 2001: Wade Goodwyn's report about a mosquito surveillance officer in Houston brought out the science police in the audience. Dr. Victor Sloan of Scotch Plains, N.J., writes this: "In Wade Goodwyn's excellent story on Houston's mosquito hunters, he said 'when the dry ice melts.' Melting is the act of a solid becoming liquid. Dry ice does not melt, it sublimes. That is, it goes directly from a solid to a gas, without ever becoming liquid. When I was about 10, my father tried to explain this to me. It took me years to believe him."

For two days, starting on May 11, 1,000 Black residents rebelled against the city's systemic oppression. More than 100 blocks of neighborhoods and businesses were damaged. Police killed six Black men.