Many businesses are closing, a university is locking down and weekend festivities have come to a halt in two Tennessee towns preparing for white nationalist rallies.
All is not well with Lake Okeechobee in south Florida. All the water is being held back by a troubled earthen dike that surrounds the lake. After strong storms, there's concern it could collapse.
Jared Kushner is both a Senior Advisor and son-in-law to President Trump, and, like the president, he and his family were in the real estate business before getting into politics. The Kushner Companies' troubled development on 5th Avenue in New York City shows how politics have complicated that business.
Gary Mendell lost his son to addiction in 2011, and went on to form the group Shatterproof, which advocates for better prevention and treatment for addiction. He was at the White House today to hear President Trump's announcement designating the nation's opioid crisis a public health emergency, and he shares his reactions with NPR's Robert Siegel.
In one memo written just after President Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called it "inexcusable" he wasn't protected.
The vast majority of what's being held secret is at the request of the FBI and CIA. The White House is establishing a six-month review process for those remaining records.
Mlitary prosecutors have called on several current and former service members who looked for Bergdahl in the days immediately after he walked away from his post in Afghanistan.
Rosa Maria Hernandez, who came illegally to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 3 months old, was being transferred between hospitals in Texas when the ambulance was stopped by federal officers.