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The New Yorker cartoonist channels her affection for the city into a new tongue-in-cheek guidebook, Going Into Town. "It's just fun," Chast says of New York. "Everything seems to suggest stories."

President Trump says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is wasting his time negotiating with North Korea. Tillerson says he's keeping open channels for now, mostly to talk about humanitarian concerns.

At blood banks across Nevada, lines of people waiting to donate stretched around buildings and down sidewalks. The mayor of Las Vegas called on people to donate.

Sunrise Hospital was one of the main hospitals that received victims of Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas. Dr. Jeffrey Murawsky, the hospital's chief medical officer, talks to NPR's Kelly McEvers.

Tracking gunfire Sunday night, police found Stephen Paddock in a hotel room, dead from what they believe was a self-inflicted wound. Around him, they found 16 guns, and thousands of bullets.

As more information comes to light about the Las Vegas gunman responsible for more than 50 deaths, Steve Inskeep talks to to Dr. Paul Gill, an expert on the "lone wolf" phenomenon.

The mayor wanted to bring in three falcons and two hawks to scare the pigeons off. About 20,000 people have signed a petition to keep the birds of prey away.

Of nearly 400,000 full-time, in-state SUNY and CUNY students, fewer than 22,000 are getting the much-touted Excelsior scholarship this year.

For years, three physicists worked to prove Albert Einstein's idea that gravitational waves are rippling through space-time. In 2015, they made history as part of the LIGO Collaboration.

Nearly 50 years ago, Dennis Helmer's wallet was stolen. Philly.com reports among the items in it, a receipt for his first semester at Drexel University in 1956. The cost: $168.