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A U.S. soldier overseas during World War II lost a bracelet inscribed with his sweetheart's name. A treasure hunter discovered it this fall, and returned it to its rightful owner.

In the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, NPR set up a phone booth in New York City and invited people to leave voicemails for someone they lost that day. Here's what they had to say.

Gaspar Gomez immigrated from Mexico City when he was 16. On May 3, he died of COVID-19. His daughter Lucia Gomez remembers their special connection –– especially a shared love for dancing to banda music.

By the 1980s, 60,000 people had been forcibly removed from this mixed-race section of Cape Town. But the area's food traditions reflect the spirit of helpmekaar, an Afrikaans term for mutual support.

Cocaine Bear came in second place and drew $23 million at the box office in its first weekend. The movie is based on a true story.

The 1982 film, restored in 2015, centers on the marriage of a philosophy professor and an impulsive painter.

Brandon Jay and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, created Altadena Musicians to help those who may have lost their beloved musical instruments in last year's LA wildfires.

The magnitude 8.1 quake hit off Mexico's southern coast, toppling houses in Chiapas state and causing buildings more than 600 miles away in Mexico City to sway violently.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with journalist Emmanuelle Chaze about the rescue ship Ocean Viking's response to a shipwreck off the coast of Libya last week, in which about 130 migrants drowned.

Most of the power outages are in Georgia, where 677,842 customers lost electricity. But Louisiana, Alabama and North Carolina each saw more than 400,000 accounts go dark.