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In preparing for a natural disaster like the impending Hurricane Florence, companies like Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Walgreens have become a major part of the nation's emergency planning process.

In the South Korean film, architecture is a symbol of class conflict.Director Bong Joon-ho knows that mansions are all over — but a certain humble subterranean apartment is particular to Seoul.

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

Scientists say intense seismic activity indicates magma is shifting beneath the volcano and a violent eruption is possible. Hundreds of thousands of residents are under evacuation orders.

Unrest continues in Colombia as thousands protest the government. A bomb exploded Friday night at a police station, killing three.

Political pundit Wajahat Ali's young daughter was fighting liver cancer. He tells NPR's Scott Simon about how a stranger's response to an appeal on Twitter saved her life.

The 21-year-old white man who is suspected of gunning down 22 people at a busy Walmart in August has pleaded not guilty. He had previously confessed to the killings, according to police documents.

Fifth years ago, Hurricane Camille slammed into the eastern United States, killing hundreds of people and leaving behind a wake of devastation.

NPR's Kelly McEvers found herself crying unpredictably during the Arab Spring, when friends were being kidnapped and worse. Why do otherwise intelligent people risk their lives to report on conflicts? In a new hourlong radio documentary, she turns the mic on herself to search for an answer.

Security forces in Egypt have arrested a prominent political activist over inciting a demonstration. That's according to the blogger's family. The protest was in defiance of a new law that heavily restricts demonstrations in the country.