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You can sometimes find out a lot about a country just by spending an hour or two rooting around town. NPR's Philip Reeves sent this postcard about his trip to a historic market in Santiago, Chile, in search of one of the world's more lethal drinks.

High winds and lashing rain pushed Maine rivers past flood stage and flooded roadways. Many residents are still without power.

Florida has its first professional rodeo team. The Florida Freedom and its bull riders will compete in a rodeo there the first weekend of August.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa about whether James Comey's firing this week will affect the FBI's Russia investigation.

On this week's StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, Cynthia Alvarez remembers her late husband, Marine Corporal Daniel Mark MacMurray.

Extreme heat warnings are in effect for more than 10 million people in parts of the West. Cities are mobilizing to help the homeless and the elderly while firefighters are on high alert for wildfires.

A professor who studies the effects of solar radiation on climate composed a string quartet piece using climate data converted to sound in a process called "sonification."

The Asheville band were the only ones of nearly 5,000 Tiny Desk Contest entrants to play in a convenience store. Lead vocalist Mike Martinez says that setting is more poignant than you might think.

A winter storm is still causing cancellations and power outages in parts of the south this morning.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews It Follows, a film that he says works some interesting changes on the horror genre.