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The 19 firefighters killed in Arizona Sunday represented the worst loss for their profession since Sept. 11, 2001. The number of firefighters killed in the line of duty has been in decline, but departments are seeking innovative ways to offer support in times of grief.

When the Pilgrim family first arrived in Alaska, they looked to be from another century. They didn't use calendar months, they called their father "Lord," and they knew how to live in the wild. But, as Tom Kizzia writes in Pilgrim's Wilderness, that rugged facade helped conceal a history of abuse.

For centuries, Wall Street was where some of the biggest banks in the world were based. Today, it's home to Uber and Spotify, and new residents have poured in.

The sequoias are "wrapped with house-wrapping material, kind of an aluminum-foil fabric that goes around the base of the trees," says Jon Wallace, who is helping to lead the firefighting effort.

Specific homeless camps may fuel property crime, but one researcher says on average, camps do not appear to increase city-wide crime rates.

The nation's capital is the hunting ground of crime writer David Baldacci, the brains behind of dozens of high-level government conspiracies involving the CIA, the FBI and even the White House.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about the lessons that can be learned from the 1980 actors strike as a new strike is now underway.

As health care becomes more and more complicated, some people are turning to patient advocates to help them get through the system. Advocates help coordinate care, accompany patients to doctors' appointments and help negotiate the increasingly complex world of medicine.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Amy Nordrum of the MIT Technology Review about the magazine's list of breakthrough technologies for 2025.

A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.