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Nearly 200 rip-current related rescues were made in North Carolina last month.

Gunmen in Mumbai are thought to still be holding a number of foreign hostages. Indian commandos have been trading fire with the attackers. On Wednesday, gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades fanned out across Mumbai and attacked popular tourist sites, including the city's top two luxury hotels.

The company that introduced the world to the Walkman reported its biggest annual loss in more than 15 years — partly due to a major hacker attack and the Japanese tsunami. But Sony just unveiled its newest products, and company executives and analysts agree that Sony must make a few changes to improve its prospects.

A rare vanishing flower that grows in only two places on earth survives only because people weed its habitat.

Storms have caused flooding and deaths in the Midwest and South over the past several days. Kentucky was one of the hard-hit areas, and some creeks and rivers are still on the rise.

The Santa Ana winds are fueling wildfires in southern California. Usually, they stay at higher altitudes, but this time, they dropped lower and squeezed through mountain passes.

Stalin, a biography by Oxford University historian Robert Service, adopts a new view of the Soviet leader. Service says Josef Stalin was not the uneducated and coarse man he was often perceived to be. In fact, Service says, Stalin deliberately fashioned that image for himself.

The Trump ally and longtime Republican megadonor testifies regarding cost-cutting measures at the U.S. Postal Service that Democrats say would jeopardize Americans' ability to vote by mail.

A couple from New York recently caught a safe full of $100 bills while magnet fishing.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports the latest updates on Hollywood's labor negotiations led by writers and the strike authorization vote by SAG-AFTRA, the union representing screen actors.