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The South is the nation's leader in setting small wildfires on purpose, to prevent massive ones like those out West. One big reason is that so much land in the South is privately owned, not public.

Roman was one of the first female executives at NASA, its first chief of astronomy and she played an instrumental role in making the Hubble Space Telescope a reality. She died on Dec. 25.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with freelance journalist Mariana Zuñiga, who has been reporting on the Venezuelan protests in Caracas, about the scene on the ground.

The DOT announced new voluntary guidance for autonomous vehicles. The agency wants to adapt the definition of "driver" to include autonomous systems, among other changes.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Steve McAndrew of the Red Cross about the organization's plans to aid victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

The House Oversight Committee is launching probes of the Trump administration. The chairman vows a deliberative approach but he has to navigate a panel with firebrands on the right and the left.

A discovered pre-Prohibition bottle of Old Taylor, named after a whiskey world icon, inspired a distillery to use chromatography to examine the bourbon's murky past and try to recover its flavor.

It's been eight months since Juan Guaidó stood up and declared himself the Venezuela's legitimate president. But authoritarian Nicolás Maduro remains president and the opposition seems fractured.

The U.S. government may have helped create the current helium shortage, and now people are looking for new sources of the gas.

An important rebel city falls in Syria as the government's relentless attack on the last rebel province turns one of the last corner's in the civil war.