The 2019 Hurricane Season Will Be 'Near Normal.' But Normal Can Still Be Devastating
Federal weather forecasters are predicting a "near normal" number of storms this hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November 1.
Between nine and 15 named storms, including includes tropical storms, are predicted to form in the Atlantic this year, said Neil Jacobs, acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
WATCH: The Fight Over Abortion Rights In The U.S.
A growing number of states are passing laws banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy. Anti-abortion-rights activists see this as an unprecedented opportunity to roll back Roe v. Wade.
Watch the video above to learn more.
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Modi Wins In Landslide Election, A Victory For Hindu Nationalists
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been reelected and his party is poised to take more seats than the 2014 election, signaling India's support of the strongman leader and his Hindu nationalist ideology.
The voting lasted almost six weeks to accommodate nearly 900 million people who were eligible to cast their votes.
On Thursday, the ballots were counted and results showed Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, winning more seats than any other party.
Former Inmates Are Getting Jobs As Employers Ignore Stigma In Bright Economy
In 1998, Ichard Oden committed a crime that got him sent away for two decades. He was 19.
He got out of prison in February. Today, he's a 40-year-old man with very little job experience.
As it turns out, Oden is coming back into society at a time when the economy is booming and attitudes toward people with criminal records are changing.
U.S. Brings New Charges Against Julian Assange In War Logs, State Cables Case
Updated at 5:54 p.m. ET
Prosecutors are bringing a slate of new charges against Julian Assange, including alleged violations of the Espionage Act, raising the stakes for his prospective extradition from the United Kingdom.
Senate Reaches $19 Billion Deal For Disaster Aid Without Border Wall Funding
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET
The Senate approved a $19.1 billion disaster aid package Thursday that includes money for states impacted by flooding, recent hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as money for communities rebuilding after wildfires.
The measure passed overwhelmingly — 85-8.
In This Town, You Apply For A Job And You Get It
Ames, Iowa, has the lowest unemployment rate in the country. That's great for workers — but a challenge for those looking for them.
Tanisha Cortez is one of those benefiting from this tight labor market. The restaurant where Cortez worked closed in late November, so she went looking for a new job. She submitted applications to about half a dozen companies.
Almost right away, she got offers from every one of them. And she was working again at a new restaurant two weeks later. She will earn $2,000 more a year than she made at her old job.
Misery Grows At Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Family Members
In northeast Syria, an overcrowded detention camp is home to more than 73,000 people who lived in the former ISIS caliphate. Almost three-quarters of the al-Hol camp residents are children — born to Syrian, Iraqi and other foreign parents who flocked to the ISIS caliphate over the five years it ruled territory here.
In recent visits to the camp, NPR was told of babies dying from malnutrition and disease, and found women collapsed by the side of the road.
Disabled Woman Who Gave Birth At Care Facility May Have Been Impregnated Before
An incapacitated woman who gave birth after being a patient at an Arizona health care facility for more than two decades had been raped repeatedly and may have been impregnated before, her lawyers say.
In documents filed Wednesday, the 29-year-old woman's attorneys cite a medical exam in alleging that she suffered multiple sexual assaults. The exam found that the birth of a baby boy last December was "a non-nulliparous event," the documents say, meaning she may have been pregnant before.
A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked A French Telecom Firm. Now Its Execs Stand Trial
One morning in 2011, Rémy Louvradoux went to his management job at the French telecommunications company where he had worked for 30 years. At 7 a.m., alone in the parking lot of his office near Bordeaux, in southwestern France, he killed himself.
His son, Raphael Louvradoux, told the news site L'Obs that his father wrote the company a letter two years before taking his life.
