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Veterans Affairs is expanding its popular post-9/11 caregiver program to include vets from Vietnam and Korea, but caregivers currently in the program say they're being purged in the process.

Many Louisiana business owners say they're not getting a fair share of disaster relief contracts from the federal government, despite the vast rebuilding needed in the region after Hurricane Katrina. Only a tiny proportion of Federal Emergency Management Agency recovery contracts has gone to Louisiana firms.

Born and raised on the Spanish island of Mallorca, Buika has a voice that radiates intensity, with a power that's hard to define. Whether she's singing flamenco, soul, electronica or the blues, she says she finally feels completely free to sing whatever she wants.

NPR's A Martinez talks to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell as rescue teams search for survivors of the devastating fires. Dozens of people have been killed. It could take years to repair the damage.

The lava and ash the Cumbre Vieja volcano has spewed for two months have consumed homes and forced thousands to flee. However, the rock formed by the lava will ultimately save the island from the sea.

Hockey's Stanley Cup Finals get under way Saturday night. The Detroit Red Wings are hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins in what experts are calling a match-up made in "hockey heaven." Damien Cox, a columnist for the Toronto Star talks with Guy Raz about the series.

In his new memoir, David McGlynn describes how his teenage years were disrupted by violence. McGlynn was a swimmer who turned to evangelical Christianity in college. A Door in the Ocean is a compelling coming-of-age story marked by random tragedy and biblical tracts, church coffee and chlorine.

Critic David Orr surveys the "jumbled landscape" of American poetry to select his favorite collections of the year: five books that will alternately comfort and challenge you.

Threats and confrontations have prompted police escorts, charges in at least two cases, and pleas from authorities and local officials to leave workers alone so they restore power.

A popular stretch of beach in Florida's panhandle has reopened following two shark bite incidents several miles apart on Friday. Three people were injured.