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President-elect Donald Trump announced his picks for attorney general, CIA director and national security adviser. Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Scott Horsley and the Carnegie Endowment's Sarah Chayes.

Officials have ordered a cruise ship to hold off the California coast to await testing of those aboard after a passenger on an earlier voyage died and at least one other became infected.

Severe weather in Delaware and New Jersey early Friday prompted tornado warnings.

Scott speaks with author Frederick Reiken about his new novel, The Lost Legends of New Jersey. (Harcourt Brace) It tells the story of the Rubin clan and of suburban dissolution of the family.

Coastal cities often bear the brunt of hurricanes. But as Hurricane Helene showed, extreme rainfall can be life-threatening hundreds of miles away.

As speculation abounds over Attorney General Jeff Session's future, a crowded field of contenders are jockeying for position ahead of the Aug. 15 GOP primary in Alabama to choose his successor.

DeVos has been the subject of controversy for her support of charter and religious schools and school vouchers.

In The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, author Daniel Mendelsohn unearths and reconstructs the lives of six people in his family who died in the Holocaust. Maureen Corrigan has a book review.

A famed desert landscape has reemerged as water levels in Lake Powell reservoir have fallen to record lows. It's raising questions about the future of this oasis and water in the American West.

Scientists racing to protect coral amid an ocean heat wave blistering reefs off South Florida got some rare good news this month. Some of the rescued corals made babies in their lab.