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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Greg Waller, a hydrologist at the West Gulf River Forecast Center of the National Weather Service, about the conditions that factored into the deadly flooding in Texas.

NPR speaks with Zachary Price, law professor at the University of California College of Law San Francisco, about the Trump administration's rationale for exempting tech companies from the TikTok ban.

California is on the verge of passing a new law that would allow providers there to anonymously mail abortion medication to patients, both in the state and to locations outside it. Advocates are hopeful it will allow for more providers to feel safe engaging in telemedicine in order to provide abortion care.

Mexico won the Concacaf Gold Cup after defeating the U.S. men's soccer team in Sunday's final. The match was a preview of next year's FIFA World Cup, which the U.S. and Mexico co-host with Canada.

President Trump this week has been firing off letters to global leaders that threaten new, high tariff rates and also announcing them via social media. Here's what has happened so far.

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — that is Earth, and the climate change we are causing to it.

Widely-cited data on hoarding disorder shows that 2.5% of people across the U.S. live with the mental health condition.

A few days after her sister died, Maureen was on the subway when a stranger asked how she was doing. The conversation that followed is one that she will forever cherish.

Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli goods from the shelves.

Health Secretary RFK Jr. has said vegetable oils, like canola and soybean, are "poisoning Americans." But many researchers say the evidence isn't there. So, what does the science say about seed oils?