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If you were anywhere in the Los Angeles area during lunch time on Monday, you likely felt a little shake -- or a big shake depending on your location.

The former uranium mining town of Uravan, Colo., was once declared too toxic for humans and razed to the ground. But that's not stopping former residents from gathering there for an annual picnic.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk has been under siege and subject to artillery and rocket attacks for months — residents are living in stressful conditions and the separatist militia is jumpy.

The UN says more than half a million Palestinians have returned to Gaza City and the north, but the joy of returning home has crashed into the reality of a city devastated by Israeli airstrikes.

TPS holders make up 15% of noncitizen healthcare workers. Losing their work authorization could deepen staffing shortages across the U.S. healthcare sector.

Homing pigeons rely on a variety of signals to navigate, including magnetism. But it hasn't been clear how they detect magnetic cues. Researchers propose the answer may be found in the birds' livers.

When playing at home, the Green Bay Packer's quarterback tugs on the beard of a communications technician, who works on the sidelines. Green Bay has won all of its home games this season.

Robert talks to NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Gisenyi, Rwanda, about the mass return of refugees from the nearby town of Goma, Zaire. Relief agencies are scrambling to handle the unexpected crush of roughly half a million people who returned over the past four days. As the throngs have headed home, families have been separated, and relief agencies are caring for a few thousand children who can't find their parents. Meanwhile, returnees face the situation of returning home to find their houses occupied by squatters.

NPR's Nary Kay Magistead reports that forty hours of rain from Typhoon Kirk triggered floods across northeastern China yesterday, leaving roads, homes, farms and even whole villages under water. It was the latest in two months of storms that have caused the worst flooding in China this century. The Chinese government estimates that 200 million people have been affected. Officials say 2800 people have been killed and four and a half million homes have been destroyed.

Tuesday night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game was won by the National League in a first-ever home run swingoff.