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The massive fire has now been burning since mid-July in Northern California. Sheriff's deputies are still looking for four people who lived in the town of Greenville, which was largely destroyed.

If confirmed, environmental leader Tracy Stone-Manning would be the first permanent director of the Bureau of Land Management in four years.

NPR's Felix Contreras speaks with Leila Cobo about her new book, Decoding Despacito, and the commercial history of Latin music in the U.S.

The novel earned Jones the $35,000 award for tackling difficult social issues in fiction. The prize's head judge says the book is "going to have a place in the literary imagination for a long time."

This season's final competition, originally scheduled for mid-March, had to be bumped up by two weeks. "The river was already melting," the town's mayor explained.

Last month, the House of Representatives voted for only the third time in history to impeach the president. Then something else unusual happened amid the holidays. Nothing.

The New Jersey senator sat down for NPR's interview series Off Script and was asked by an undecided voter why some residents in his hometown of Newark don't see him as "the voice" of black youth.

The latest book by the author of Outliers and The Tipping Point looks at miscommunication throughout history — and finds it's really hard to know whom to believe.

Buzzfeed's Heidi Blake fails to support a dubious argument, but the book is worth reading for its recap of more than a dozen murder and suspicious death stories during a two-decade period.

A political career was once regarded as fine preparation for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But that was long ago. What's changed?