Residents are being urged to finish storm preparations. Francine is expected to bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding to Louisiana, Mississippi, southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.

The 9 p.m. Tuesday event offers a look at a race that’s dramatically changed since July.

A team of scientists and bakers in the Pacific Northwest is searching for ways to make whole wheat bread resilient to a warming world — and more delicious.

Marquez Plaza will be built along the 1800 block of Richmond Highway.

Six of the Richmond-based company's Virginia stores will still close permanently.

The CDC said 65 people in nine states, including Virginia, have been infected.

A lot happened this week, and NPR has you covered. Catch up on the big news and culture moments you might have missed.

Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters reports on targeted state lawmaker shootings.

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.