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U.S. forces rescued the five other troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that went down during what officials called a training exercise off the country's southeastern coast.

At least 16 people have been killed by Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit India's west coast in decades. Among those evacuated to higher ground were COVID-19 patients.

The now post-tropical cyclone is racing into southeastern Canada after plowing through New England, and is expected to continue to weaken.

Nearly 60 bodies have been recovered from a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean. Many more are feared dead. Eighty migrants survived when their rickety vessel sank off the Italian coast.

Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.

Dianna Douglas has produced NPR's signature news pieces from across the nation and around the world. In the spring of 2010 she spent five weeks embedded with the US Army in Kandahar. Her work with the Special Forces in Meiwan Province, the Military Police in Kandahar City, and the recently-arrived 101st Airborne Division in Zhari document the small victories and overwhelming challenges of the American mission in Afghanistan.

Besides the challenges of displacement and recovery, officials are scrambling to support the enormous mental health needs of Lahaina residents traumatized by the deadliest wildfire in modern history.

Gov. Brown Calls Sessions Lawsuit Part of a ‘Reign of Terror’ The Trump administration went after California lawmakers on their home turf yesterday when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech just blocks from the state Capitol. Sessions spoke to a law enforcement group about why he’s suing California over several state immigration laws. … Continue reading The California Report →

The Pentagon says twice in four days a missile was fired from Yemen at the USS Mason, with no damage to the ship or its crew. An official says the U.S. has destroyed radar locations in response.

The drilling is scheduled to start this month in waters off the Bahamas, just 150 miles from the Florida coast. It's raising alarms among environmental groups and businesses that rely on tourism.