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President Trump's national security team has been trying — and failing — for months to come up with a new plan for Afghanistan. On Friday, they will meet again at Camp David to plot a way forward in the longest war in U.S. history. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says all options are on the table. What are they, and what's the country's goal at this point?

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with author Jess Walter about the significance today of the 1992 deadly standoff between right-wing fundamentalists and the federal government at Ruby Ridge in Idaho.

Throughout human history, solar eclipses have been seen as having great religious significance, often as omens or signs of divine warning or punishment. Major and minor religions alike have their own understandings.

The former foreign minister for the Marshall Islands, Tony deBrum, has died. He was an advocate for climate policies that would keep his homeland from drowning under rising seas.

President Trump spoke of winning in Afghanistan without defining what victory there would look like. The enemy is a hard-to-define collection of competing extremist groups.

For 40 years, Alaska has been putting its oil money into a giant savings account. But now the oil — and the money — are drying up.

California's record drought is officially over. But trees are still dying across the state because they were so badly weakened by years without water.

Cambridge University Press had removed articles about Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen Square from its Chinese website at the request of authorities. Days later, the publisher reversed course.

A Maryland dam has been helping to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by holding back sediment that can harm aquatic life. But now the dam's sediment pools have filled up earlier than projected.

The University of Southern California unveiled a statue that features a quote from "Shakespear." It says the name has been spelled many ways, and says, "To E, or not to E, that is the question."