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Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.

A study looks at the rate of self-managed abortion since Roe v. Wade fell. The study found that the use of mifepristone to self-manage abortion has nearly doubled from 6.6% in 2021 to 11.0% in 2023.

Locking down the Capitol "defeats the purpose of having the people's house that is available and open to constituents," says Karen Gibson, who helped review the Jan. 6 assault on the building.

A look back at the extraordinary creative souls we lost in 2018, from producer Richard Swift and opera singer Montserrat Caballé to rapper Mac Miller and Aretha Franklin.

Laws banning abortion in many conservative U.S. states are expected to boost birth rates among adolescents, whose bodies often aren't built for safe childbirth, or for carrying a pregnancy to term.

The aircraft-maker has faced renewed scrutiny this year, mostly going back to an incident when a rear door plug tore off a 737 Max 9. Things have compounded from there.

On Wednesday, local leaders learned that Guam would lose $6 million in funding for mental health and addiction programs. On Thursday, they learned the funding would be restored.

A judge threw out a suit against Fox News by a former Trump supporter who said he got death threats when the network aired false conspiracy theories about his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that a whopping 2.6 million jobs disappeared in 2008 and that an estimated 11 million Americans are looking for work. Three recent college graduates — Mimi Wong, Sarah Ahmad and Kelsey Schwenk — describe the frustrations and fears of finding themselves unemployed.

NPR rounds up what happened this week, the fourth week of President Trump's administration, and takes a look at some developments that have been overlooked.