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Update 4:58 p.m. The Highway 37 Fire that was threatening the former WR Grace asbestos mine north of Libby is now 100 percent contained. Shawn Ray...

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."

New wildfires in October are rare in Colorado, but two popped up last weekend near Boulder, causing evacuations and destroying houses. Nearby, the state's largest-ever wildfire continues to grow.

Columbia Gas prepares to serve Thanksgiving dinner to people who still don't have gas service after a series of fires and explosions that are blamed on the company.

Iftar is the nightly meal breaking the Ramadan fast. The Open Iftar project stages meals outdoors, encouraging Muslims and non-Muslims to move beyond religious divides to get to know each other.

Hundreds of seafarers are stranded on ships in the Black Sea or in ports as the war in Ukraine grinds on. Many of the stranded are Ukrainians who want to get home. Some are Russian.

Ten years ago, an earthquake killed as many as 200,000 Haitians and displaced more than a million. Survivors, officials and economists say much of the international aid that poured in has been wasted.

Hundreds of police are combing the woods for the suspect in this moth's ambush of a Pennsylvania State Police barracks, unsettling residents of the village of Canadensis in the Pocono Mountains.

As the voice of the band Hurray for the Riff Raff, Alynda Lee Segarra spins stories about her adopted hometown — not the genteel uptown life or the bawdy scene on Bourbon Street, but from the neighborhoods most tourists never see.

As a teenager, the scariest person in Jen Lancaster's life wasn't Freddie Krueger or Michael Myers, but Ronald Lancaster, her father — until the night they laughed themselves silly, courtesy of Jean Shepherd.