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The author, whose "Easy Rawlins" mystery novels are largely set in Watts, looks back 50 years ago to the night when the neighborhood first went up in flames.

For years visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line. Scientists say that marking was in the wrong place because distortions caused by gravity weren't taken into account.

First: order a burrito bowl, not a burrito — and get tortillas on the side. After some more smart choices, the intern went back to the office, weighed ingredients and it was 86 percent bigger.

Emirates will offer nonstop flights that begin in Dubai and end in Panama City, and take 17 hours and 35 minutes. The airline says that's the longest nonstop commercial westerly flight on the market.

TREYNOR, Iowa (AP) — A schools superintendent has appealed the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners' decision to suspend his state license for 30 days.The…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the suspects are believed to have been involved in torture and aiding regimes that carried out ethnic cleansing.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Soufian Almobark, who fled Aleppo, Syria, about his difficult journey to the Greek island of Lesbos, and the squalid conditions in the camp.

Cynthia Hawkins leads a family business that endured the 1965 Watts riots, and the Rodney King riots in 1992. She praises the embattled neighborhood, and says strong community ties brought success.

NPR's Scott Simon asks EPA administrator Gina McCarthy about the toxins released into a Colorado river this week by an EPA contractor working on a shuttered gold mine.

Eileen tells the dark, suspenseful story of a young woman pulled into a strange crime in the 1960s. Author Ottessa Moshfegh talks to NPR's Scott Simon about her acclaimed debut novel.