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After a deadly home explosion in Northern Colorado, residents want to change the rules on how close their homes and schools should be to oil and gas wells.

Researchers have found that people with deep friendships in adolescence had less anxiety and a greater sense of self-worth in early adulthood. Close friends matter, their study found.

Cafeteria manager Jason Smith didn't have any formal culinary training, but he did have a dream: to be a star. And now he's "happier than possum eating a sweet tater pie."

ESPN's Howard Bryant and NPR's Scott Simon discuss the upcoming face-off between Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor and whether the fight should have been sanctioned.

FBI profiler James R. Fitzgerald explains how linguistic work led helped unmask the Unabomber. Maureen Corrigan reviews Jenny Zhang's debut story collection. Everett discusses her work in Patti Cake$.

The acclaimed jazz pianist and Harvard music professor talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the Vijay Iyer Sextet's new album, Far From Over, and the politics that inspired it.

The firing of three short-range missiles was believed to be the first test since the North launched a milestone intercontinental ballistic missile test last month.

U.S. forces rescued the five other troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that went down during what officials called a training exercise off the country's southeastern coast.

Christopher Emdin, associate professor of science education at Columbia University's Teachers College, High School Principal Kevin Grawer and former Maryland Delegate Jolene Ivey join the Barbershop for a back-to-school discussion of politics and the summer's hot button.

While Corpus Christi and the surrounding area got the brunt of the Hurricane Harvey, Houston received heavy rain and strong winds. Homes were damaged and there's been some minor flooding so far.