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National Guard troops are patrolling the streets of New Orleans, returning to the city they helped stabilize nine months ago, after Hurricane Katrina struck. An upswing in violence, including a quintuple shooting that took place on Saturday, has led to new fears of unrest.

As the daughter of immigrants, Jessica Echevarria says she never saw herself represented in books growing up.

Because what mammal can take down a rodent that sniffs out land mines as well as TB — and jumps 5 feet in the air? Surely not tonight's competitor, the maned wolf.

"President Trump is in for a rude surprise if he thinks ... Kim Jong Un is going to say, 'Sure, I'll hand over my nuclear weapons,'" North Korea expert Jean H. Lee tells NPR.

Trump tweeted Saturday that his ability to win the presidency on the first try shows he is "a very stable genius" after a book renewed questions about his mental state and fitness for office.

A former secretary of Park's says she endured four years of sexual harassment. The mayor was found dead on Friday in a park, and the allegations have left the country divided about his legacy.

The fierce rivalry between Korea and Japan is in full view at the Olympics. Showdowns on the ice reflect a relationship between the countries that falls "somewhere between cold and frosty."

Newly-drawn Congressional districts in Texas benefit white residents — even though it was the population growth among people of color that helped the state pick up two additional seats in Congress.

Henry, a soft-spoken child prodigy who learns he was a "test-tube baby," goes on a quest to identify his biological father. Critic Andrew Lapin says the brilliant kid is compelling enough to sustain a film, but the filmmakers muddle the message with broad, often incoherent distractions.

Chang-Rae Lee's new novel — about a college kid from New Jersey who ends up following a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur on a business trip — is part, travelogue, coming-of-age tale and thriller.

Plaintiffs including 17-month-old boy nicknamed Woodpecker bring landmark climate litigation in South Korea, the first in Asia to get a public hearing.

The company's first permanent in-person space is a former Lord & Taylor department store in the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia. Locations are on the way in Dallas and Las Vegas.

There's no way to know what the next big hit video game will be, but fans may have gotten a hint Wednesday night in San Francisco at the at the Independent Games Festival.

Lee Spencer is not only the first amputee to make the journey solo, he also crushed the able-bodied record by 36 days. "No one should be defined by disability," he said.

Despite weeks of public hearings, views on impeachment haven't budged, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. "It's like the hearings have never happened," pollster Lee Miringoff said.

"Nearly three decades after [Dustin Lee] Honken coldly ended the lives of five people, including two young girls ... he has finally faced justice," a spokeswoman said in a statement.

The National Book Foundation winnowed the list of contenders for its literary prize to just 20 — or five finalists each in four categories. Among them are Jesmyn Ward, Min Jin Lee and Frank Bidart.

A Baltimore mayoral commission released Wednesday formalized recommendations to remove two city-owned Confederate monuments.The commission studied four…

As a middle-school student in the '80s, Lee Buono stayed after school one day to remove the brain and spinal cord from a frog. He did such a good job that his science teacher told him he might become a neurosurgeon someday. That's exactly what Buono did.

Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, was best known for Bat Out Of Hell, one of the best selling albums of all time.