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Typhoon Soudelor, now downgraded to a tropical storm, caused the heaviest rainfall in a century in one area of China. At least a dozen people were killed. Six others died when the storm hit Taiwan.

The southern city was devastated three days after Hiroshima, in the closing act of World War II. At the ceremony, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed his country's pledge to shun nuclear weapons.

Music icon Prince is worried about the future of the music business for artists, and his top priority can be summed up in one word: Freedom.

Africa marks one year without polio on Tuesday. But there are now concerns in Kenya, where bishops have declared a boycott of the vaccine on the eve of a WHO polio vaccination campaign.

Summertime means summer jobs for many college students. But a summer job just doesn't have the purchasing power it used to, especially when you compare it with the cost of college.

Sheriff's deputies discovered the carnage after a tense standoff and exchange of gunfire with a man holed up in a Houston-area home.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks about the plight of hoarders with Barry Yourgrau, author of a new memoir, Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act.

Investigators have just released old surveillance video of the Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990, just before it was robbed of $500 million in art. They're asking the public for help.

The RedState Gathering in Atlanta may have disinvited Donald Trump after his recent disparaging remarks, but the Trump phenomenon is very much on the minds of the conservative activists there.

In an interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, the president rejects the suggestion that political considerations put race relations on the back burner in his first term.

There are a few confessional speeches in Vu Tran's noirish debut novel, but what people write is more important than what they say: Anguished notes, letters and secret diary all drive the action.

Dubbed "The Mark Zuckerberg of Accra," Raindolf Owusu is developing tools to bring the internet to all Africans — and to train the next generation of tech leaders on the continent.

After a "period of unraveling," Welch looked inwards to create Florence and the Machine's new album, a sharp left turn from the raucous energy on which the band has built its name.

This week in Do Try This At Home, we learn a unusual technique for cooking eggs. It's a cross between poached and over easy that gives you a silky, yolky sauce for huevos rancheros.

Most every country has its myths. In South Korea, there's an enduring belief that if you fall asleep with an electric fan on, you're risking your life.

Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, was inspired by her experiences as the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first person in her family to attend college.

Donald Trump's invitation to speak at the Red State Gathering in Atlanta was revoked after he made disparaging comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who challenged him in a debate this week.

The California fire is unusually intense and unpredictable. But between climate change and the impact of decades of poor management, such wildfires may be the new normal.

It's been 50 years since deadly violence wracked South Los Angeles. But memories of the race riots linger with residents. In Watts' decades of recovery, they see lessons for today's racial tensions.

The controversy over the Dominican Republic's policy to deport thousands of people of Haitian descent is reverberating through Caribbean-American communities in New York City.

New Orleans has made huge strides towards ending veteran homelessness in the city. (This story first aired on August 4, 2015 on All Things Considered.)

McCoy is best known as a harmonica player, but the studio veteran also played a big role in the pivotal moment when counter-cultural folk-rock came to Music City.

On Wednesday, California made its last payment on debt incurred in 2004 by Proposition 57, which sought to deal with the state's fiscal crisis. NPR's Arun Rath talks to John Myers of KQED for more.

Thousands of hackers have headed to Las Vegas for two conferences: Black Hat and Defcon. Much of the talk at the conferences has been devoted to security flaws in consumer devices, like cellphones.