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Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten, who is in Lumberton, N.C., and Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center, about Hurricane Michael which is now a tropical storm.

Pahinui, who succumbed to health complications possibly caused by exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam, was drawn at a young age to the backyard sessions his father regularly held.

Reynolds, who died Thursday, appeared in scores of films, including Deliverance and Boogie Nights. He spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about growing up the son of a sheriff in a small Florida town.

NPR's Melissa Block asks the Washington Post's national political reporter Robert Costa to assess chances of progress toward ending the partial federal government shutdown, now in its 30th day.

U.S.-backed Juan Guaidó has declared himself president as he leads a high-stakes charge to end Nicolás Maduro's regime. Hitting back against U.S. support for Guaidó, Maduro ordered U.S. diplomats out.

American troops are marking the 10th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the Iraq war, Fallujah. In this For the Record segment, NPR's Rachel Martin asks service members if the battle was worth it.

The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools. And that means new challenges for lots of students, even traditional high achievers.

Named for the original model — an employee of Kodak — the portraits were used by photo labs to calibrate printers. But until the 1970s, that model was always white.

The Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, revolutionized the fight against poverty. Now the world is setting Sustainable Development Goals. But critics say there may be too many priorities.

As the 10th anniversary of the hurricane's landfall approaches, art museums across New Orleans focus on how the city sees itself today. In other words, no ruins and no people trapped on roofs.