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Residents of Jackson, Miss., are still trying their best to function without safe and reliable drinking water, and some decry decades of disinvestment in the state's majority-Black capital city.

A new drama series on Netflix is about one of the country's most notorious serial killers. It has NPR's Scott Simon thinking maybe it's the names of his many victims we should remember.

Severe weather, the economy, and a bellicose Russia are all challenges facing the Biden administration.

NPR's Scott Simon asks National Iranian American Council Research Director Assal Rad why the hijab has become a lightning rod in Iranian society.

A professional football player's terrible injury puts the NFL under the microscope again. Meanwhile, the U.S. women's basketball team is triumphant.

Jacques Pépin has cooked for France's president and was a friend of Julia Child. His new memoir — complete with paintings, recipes and stories — is dedicated to his love of all things chicken.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., about the damage caused by Hurricane Ian in his district, and about the recovery efforts so far.

A once-segregated school for Mexican-American children in rural west Texas is being designated a national historic site, highlighting the story of school segregation in the southwest.

Little green worms are crawling all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas. Scientists attribute the outbreak of cankerworms, or inchworms, to recent heavy rains.

This week on StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: the story of an Army trauma nurse who saved the life of, and fell in love with, an injured Marine.