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Also: Death tolls in Ecuador's and Japan's earthquakes rise; at least 8 have died in Houston-area flooding; and chip maker Intel will cut 12,000 jobs.

Also: Insurers say damage from a recent Texas hailstorm is the state's costliest; a lengthy drug tunnel is discovered between Mexico and California; and Britain's Queen Elizabeth is 90 today.

Also: Ill. Rep. Joe Walsh says abortions are never needed to save the life of a woman; and Syrian government jets drop cluster bombs on a rebel held town, killing many.

Also: Wildfires scorch more land in the west; the FAA says a software problem caused Saturday's air traffic delays; and a strange-looking deep sea creature is nicknamed the "Spaghetti Monster".

Also: A manhunt continues for the killer of an Illinois officer; Queen Elizabeth is poised to become Britain's longest ruling monarch; and somebody vandalized King Kamehameha's statue in Hawaii.

Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS and Fuerza Regida's 111XPANTIA hold down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on this week's Billboard 200, making this the first week in history with Spanish-language albums in the chart's top two spots.

The hearing detailed what former President Donald Trump did and did not do in the hours after his Ellipse speech and before he tweeted a video asking his supporters to leave the Capitol.

NPR Music recently released a top-ranking list of 150 albums by women. NPR's Noel King chats with Jill Sternheimer of the Lincoln Center and NPR's Paula Mejia who had some of tough decisions.

Conference USA is in a state of transition, with six of its 11 football teams going into their last seasons in the league. Western Kentucky coach Tyson Helton was a freshman quarterback when Houston won the first C-USA football title in 1996. He's now going into his fourth season with the Hilltoppers, who are one of five teams that will be staying.

After California Democrats voted for a plan to gerrymander congressional districts, a top Republican is proposing to split the state in two. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Assemblyman James Gallagher.

Six days before the federal government is due to shut down, Sen. Ted Cruz's fellow GOP colleagues indicated they weren't prepared to follow his lead in the anti-Obamacare fight.

Also: Flooding forces hundreds of thousands to flee in the Philippines; the U.S. presidential race gets even dirtier; it's gold medal day for women's beach volleyball.

The Trump administration's push to pause federal research funding raised alarm bells among administrators and faculty at North Carolina's top research universities.

Global instability has rejuvenated both classified and unclassified demand for table top war games. The people who play them take the games very seriously.

The 2018 Oscars airs this weekend, but there's a key player in filmmaking that won't be recognized at the awards — the stunt coordinator. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with stunt coordinator Jack Gill about what it's like to direct action scenes and what his favorite movies of the past year are.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with New York Times reporter Eric Lipton about the number of industry executives and lobbyists running cabinet agencies in the Trump administration.

A national report card out Thursday shows CMS 4th graders ahead of their peers in similar urban districts when it comes to science. CMS tops Austin,…

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.

The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, fiction, poetry, drama, music, biography, history and nonfiction were announced Monday at Columbia University in New York.

Part of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' resiliency this campaign cycle is because of his popularity with Latinos. Polling indicates Sanders is the preferred candidate for a plurality of Latinos.