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When a weather station in Death Valley recorded a high of 130 degrees Sunday, it triggered an inquiry to verify the reading. Here's a look into the exacting process of vetting extreme weather claims.

Washington is unhappy with the decision to quit a 2016 intelligence-sharing agreement. The dispute has its origins in Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula that ended after WWII.

For a third day, the Texas power grid continues to strain under a deep freeze. Millions of homes and businesses are without electricity.

On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Anchorage, Alaska. It sent tsunami waves rushing down the northwest coast to Crescent City, Calif.

Technology let us see and be with each other even when we couldn't do it in person. How did a Silicon Valley upstart beat out the tech powerhouses in video conferencing?

Poitier was the first Black actor to win a Best Actor Oscar, for 1963's Lilies of the Field. His good looks and smooth, commanding presence made him an icon to generations of moviegoers.

Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement Thursday. President Biden says he hasn't decided who will fill the vacancy, but says he will keep his promise to name a Black woman to the bench.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Isabelle Leighton of the Donors of Color Network, which has secured $100 million in pledges to fund environmental justice initiatives centered on communities color.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Douglas Ollivant, former director for Iraq at the National Security Council, about the regional security implications of Trump withdrawing U.S. troops from northern Syria.

Melissa Block talks to Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle about Texas State Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen. Roth is working on a profile of Owen. She is "an exceptional jurist," according to one former colleague. But a group opposed to her nomination to the federal bench calls Owen "an extremist jurist even by Texas standards."