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The Buffalo Bills have appointed the first female full-time coach in the NFL. Kathryn Smith will be a quality control assistant coach on special teams. But whether this position means more future integration of women in the league remains unclear.

University of South Florida researchers completed an investigation of unmarked graves at the now closed Dozier School for Boys. Twenty-one of 55 sets of remains found at the school were identified.

New information has surfaced about conditions surrounding the broken gas storage well releasing methane in southern California. The powerful greenhouse gas has been escaping for three months. It turns out the well was being operated in a way some experts say leaves little margin of safety, and the state of California is now re-examining the practice.

For more than 30 years, Iran has been a black hole for the CIA and other intelligence agencies. U.S. spies are hoping to capitalize on the latest diplomatic contact between Tehran and Washington, D.C.

Snowplow operators in the area are looking ahead with a bit of dread. Last winter was one for the record books, and for many, long hours of staring into blinding snow was too much of a good thing.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver about the response to the city's water problems and the criticism directed at Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.

The Russian government has reacted angrily to the British inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Moscow says what should have been a criminal inquiry was politicized by the British government, and risked damaging relations between the two countries.

A British judge investigating the murder of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London has concluded the killing was "probably" approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews University of Cambridge Professor Robert Foley, co-author of a study in Nature about remains of a massacre from 10,000 years ago in Kenya. He talks about why he believes this is evidence of the earliest known warfare among humans.

A British inquiry found that the Russian president "probably" approved the poisoning of an ex-intelligence agent. But Britain imposed only light penalties against two Russian suspects.