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Venezuela's blackout continued into its fifth day, heightening frustration for people already living with food and medicine shortages. Hospitals are struggling and communication networks are patchy.

The last time the government shut down, members of the U.S. Coast Guard lined up at food pantries — while they worked without being paid. The previous government shutdown last 35 days.

Last year, the A's left Oakland after 57 seasons. They'll play in West Sacramento until shifting to their permanent home in Las Vegas. Hear from their first home game in their new city.

Tulsa officials suspect lightning in house fireTULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a lightning strike caused a house fire in east…

NASA has mapped changes in the ground's position caused by the recent earthquakes — and it happens to look like beautiful, psychedelic art.

Americans once waited in line for the chance to be photographed atop the striped donkeys on this famed tourist strip. But 9/11, the recession and the Mexican drug war have stifled tourism and nearly put the "zonkeys" and their owners out of work. A new push is on to save the historic icons.

Unless disaster strikes him, American Floyd Landis is set to win the world's premiere bicycle race Sunday in Paris. Guest host Don Gonyea speaks with Anita Elash at the finish line on the Champs Elysees.

It's been too dangerous for many Ukrainians to leave their house — let alone make an escape. But some have found ways to cross the frontlines, navigating dangerous check points, to safer areas.

NPR and the Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories from around the world of the hidden lives of girls — and the women they become. Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities — of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail or changed the tide. Share your stories with us.

Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many times more than the reported figures.