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A woman drove into Houston floodwaters and "drowned while trying to escape," according to the mayor. Rainfall could reach 50 inches in parts of Texas, the highest ever recorded in the state.

Floyd Mayweather cemented his place as a boxing great with a career 50th straight win over mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Saturday. Mayweather was widely expected to win.

The question facing the party is whether to keep criticizing President Trump or to focus on narrower goals like taking down Confederate monuments.

Hooper's disturbing horror film, which was made on a shoestring budget, had a lasting influence on the genre.

Ben Philpott of member station KUT in Austin, Texas talks about the response of Houston and Texas officials to flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey.

As the flooding in Houston, Texas, worsens many people have escaped to shelters around the greater Houston area. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Luis Villanueva, the lieutenant commanding officer at the Salvation Army in Pasadena, in addition to evacuee Kent Davis.

Several bouts of violence broke out in an otherwise peaceful demonstration in Berkeley, Calif., when left-wing counterprotesters clashed with right-wing protesters and Trump supporters.

The sailors were killed in a collision between the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer and a commercial tanker last Monday local time in waters east of the Strait of Malacca and Singapore.

A recent study suggests that when people spend their extra cash to get help with time-consuming chores, they're likelier to feel better than if they use the money to buy more things.

Officials now call Tropical Storm Harvey, which was a hurricane, an "unprecedented" weather event that has left thousands of homes flooded, stranding some people and overwhelming rescue workers.