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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Kieran Cahalan of Weatherford, Okla., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Heavy winter rains in California have highlighted the need to capture stormwater and save it for dry times. Los Angeles is currently working on how to do this.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Colorado Springs Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade about his victory in Tuesday's election. He's the first Black person to be elected mayor there.

The singers traveled to England for a tour to raise money to build a technical college. Their up-and-down experience is a reminder of the racial biases that persist today.

The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.

As President Biden and Group of Seven leaders gathered in Hiroshima, people in Japan wanted the setting to act as a powerful symbol for consensus toward banning nuclear arms.

Investigators found Trump's appointee at the U.S. Agency for Global Media repeatedly abused his power. "It just takes one's breath away," says David Seide, a lawyer who represented whistleblowers.

Investors are still hopeful that lawmakers will clinch a deal to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. That's because failure to do so could have devastating consequences in markets.

Russia has claimed victory in the invasion's longest battle, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the fight for Bakhmut was not over. "We are not throwing people (away) to die," he said.

The Bob Baffert-trained horse won the second leg of the Triple Crown at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, while a string of recent horse deaths have clouded this year's races.