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Officials have known for years that Benton Harbor, Mich., has high levels of lead in the water. Now, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has set an 18-month goal for replacing the lead pipes throughout the city.

Residents of southern Lebanon are returning to the villages they had fled and emerging from hiding places. Back at home, they are checking on the friends they left behind -- and beginning the grim work of recovering the dead.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Chris LaVoie, whose Oregon business and home were destroyed in the Holiday Farm Fire. LaVoie is the owner of McKenzie River Mountain Resort in Blue River.

There are about three dozen wildfires burning in every region of the state. Mass evacuation orders have displaced tens of thousands of people. Evacuees must find shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Salesforce has laid out "a set of guiding principles" that can be applied location by location when the company reopens buildings, executive Elizabeth Pinkham says.

The pandemic is making it tough for the authorities to protect the city and its overcrowded slums from waterborne diseases and flooding.

President Trump floated ordering a quarantine in the Northeast, and there are calls for a national stay-at-home order. But the president's powers are limited.

On May 1, 1866, Memphis was home to a massacre that killed 46 African-Americans and injured many others. Now a historical marker shows an ongoing rift between white historians and black activists.

Abortion rights activists have filed a challenge to stop a new rule requiring clinics to bury fetal remains from abortions and miscarriages. The rule is also not sitting well with funeral directors.

The final score in Game 7 was Cubs 8, Indians 7. The Cubs came back from a 3-1 game deficit in the Series and became baseball's champions for the first time since 1908.