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The Urban Archaeology Corps has teens in Virginia getting their hands dirty, in an initiative by the National Park Service to help increase diversity in its staff, visitors and the stories it tells.

Milwaukee is at the top of the list violent cities, with a 76 percent increase in homicides. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn.

Serena Williams defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands on Friday night at the U.S. Open. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with sports correspondent Tom Goldman.

When Congress returns from summer recess Tuesday, it will tackle the Iran nuclear deal, but that won't be its only big issue. NPR's Scott Simon gets the details from correspondent Scott Horsley.

Kim Davis was put behind bars earlier this week for refusing to comply with a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Terrified of frequent suicide attacks and fed up with a plummeting economy, Iraqis see the mass migration in Europe as a chance to get out of the country.

Two tow boats hit each other near Columbus, Ky., on Wednesday. One of them released an unknown quantity of potentially toxic clarified slurry oil.

The author of The Corrections and the new novel Purity likens writing to losing himself in a dream. Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans shaped our current understanding of autism.

The blaze broke out at about 3:30 a.m. on Friday at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, which had been targeted by anti-abortion protesters last month.

Two people have been arrested in the bombing of the Erawan shrine in Bangkok last month that killed 20 people. But authorities now say neither is the prime suspect.