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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with state Sen. Melissa Hurtado of the California Legislature about her district's struggle with widespread drought and water shortages.

The wealthy merchant city of Dubrovnik, in present-day Croatia, had a problem. The Black Death was killing much of Europe, but Dubrovnik didn't want to lock down and lose business.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, faces several drug charges and is under investigation for allegedly helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

Conservative voters are hoping to reshuffle the map by taking counties in eastern and southern Oregon and making them a part of neighboring Idaho.

On May 31, 1921, a group of white locals launched an attack on a thriving Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

Turkey is rushing to combat a pollution-caused muck in the Sea of Marmara that's growing across the seabed and excretes a foul mucus on the water's surface.

States with the worst vaccination rates are clustered in the South. A look at three Gulf states: what's working and what needs to change to vaccinate more people?

\Biden's massive infrastructure proposal aims to shift the U.S. away from fossil fuels. But much more will be needed to meet his goal of making the entire power sector carbon neutral by 2035.

Kirstjen Nielsen's visit to Texas and Arizona comes as her department is under scrutiny for the recent deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody.

In just four seasons, the Portland Pickles have made baseball a staple on the city's east side.