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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, KKK and members of the "alt-right" hurl water bottles back and forth against counter demonstrators on the outskirts of Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Reporter In Charlottesville Gives Her Take On Weekend Violence

President Trump is placing blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend on "both sides," but what is true about what happened that day?

Trump Celebrates Health Vote Win With Jubilant Republicans

NPR's Scott Horsley joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to discuss President Trump's news conference after a bill overhauling the Affordable Care Act passed the House on Thursday.

People stand in front of an apartment building where a 10-year-old boy that died of a fentanyl overdose last month lived, in Miami, Fla., Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (Mario Houben/AP)

Miami Boy's Death Shows Powerful Opioid's Chilling Potential

Authorities are now looking into how the boy may have come in contact with the powerful painkiller.

Naples Zoo welcomes a newborn ring-tailed lemur

A male ring-tailed lemur was born at the Naples Zoo.

FILE - Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks at a convention, June 15, 2024, in Detroit. Former President Donald Trump has narrowed his vice presidential shortlist to a handful of contenders that include Donalds, as he prepares to announce his pick in the days before, or perhaps at, next month's Republican National Convention. Trump told reporters Saturday, June 22, that he already has made his decision and that that person will be in attendance Thursday night in Atlanta at the first debate of the general election campaign with Democratic President Joe Biden.

Byron Donalds retains seat in U.S. House of Representatives

Mario Diaz-Balart defeats Democratic challenger

Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart won reelection to U.S. House seat.

Ms. Payne interviewing a soldier from Chesapeake, Va., in Vietnam in 1967.

From Selma To Eisenhower, Trailblazing Black Reporter Was Always Probing

Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of the successful crossing of the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, a key moment in the civil rights movement. Journalist Ethel Payne was there.

The departure board is reflected on the floor as a passenger sits in the international terminal at Ngurah Rai Airport on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Friday. Indonesian authorities closed five airports after the eruption of a volcano on Java.

Eruption Of Indonesian Volcano Forces Closure Of Airports

Five airports on Java, Bali and Lombok have been closed as a result of the eruption of Mount Raung, which has sent clouds of ash drifting over the region.

San Francisco To Remove 19th Century Statue Critics Say Degrades Native Americans

The idea of removing the statute had been debated for decades. It will be replaced by a plaque explaining the rationale for its removal from a site near City Hall.

People inspect a site hit by what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on a marketplace in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, on Sunday.

Scores Killed In Syrian Airstrikes On Rebel Neighborhood In Damascus

More than 80 people were killed and at least 200 wounded in four airstrikes on a crowded marketplace, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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