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The Washington Wizards basketball team and Capitals hockey teams may be moving to northern Virginia. D.C. faces losing not only two sports teams but also an economic engine of its downtown.

Dozens are dead following flash flooding in Texas, including some at Camp Mystic. NPR speaks with Lauren Garcia about the camp and what makes it a special place for the women in her family.

With dense forests and rugged beauty, Grindstone Island is a favorite summer getaway for visitors — and some of them never want to leave. The island near the Canadian border has one official cemetery, but locals say that hundreds of people are buried there, in unofficial gravesites.

Twenty years ago, 50,000 residents were evacuated from Grand Forks, N.D., after a devastating flood. Mayor Michael Brown talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the town's new flood protections.

Residents and officials of Wichita, Kan., react to the crash of the commercial flight that left Wichita and collided with a military helicopter Wednesday at Regan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

People in the Ukrainian city Kherson {kHAIR-son} say Russian soldiers are using remote-controlled drones to attack civilians. Officials say the attacks escalated last summer and are a daily threat.

The recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement from the country's government to Indigenous people.

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

A day after India suspended a water-sharing treaty and downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan, authorities in Islamabad closed airspace to Indian aircraft and suspended all trade with India.

A day after the U.N. appealed for restraint following Tuesday's deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, India reported an exchange of fire across the de facto border in the disputed region.