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An engine on a plane at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas caught fire as it was preparing for takeoff. All passengers and crew escaped, though 14 people were injured in the rush to get out.

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Rev. Peter Schipka, general secretary of the Austrian Bishops Conference, about the Pope's call for parishes to take in refugees. His parish welcomed refugees in June.

The European Union and Turkey are discussing how to regulate and manage migrants arriving in Greece. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Michele Telaro, a field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders on the Greek island of Lesbos.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and organizations want to make distracted driving a primary offense.

U.S. health regulators have approved the first new type of flu drug in two decades. Wednesday's approval of Xofluza for people age 12 and older comes...

There's less than a month left to enroll for health insurance plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace and so far this year fewer people have been...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Galileo Cheng, social affairs executive for the Hong Kong Catholic Institution Staff Association, who has been at the protests in Hong Kong all day.

In less than two years, U.S. Border Patrol agents have killed 18 Mexicans along the border — including eight people throwing rocks. Now the Department of Homeland Security is examining its policy on deadly force along the border.

In many countries, the very young have zero interest in politics. After decades of conflict, however, Gaza is an intensely political place and its young people were out in force to give Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal a hero's welcome — even though many are still suffering the effects of the recent eight-day missile offensive.

Robert Siegel talks to Quil Lawrence about a prayer vigil held for victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.