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The Santa Ana winds driving California's wildfires are fabled. Some call them the Santa Anas and others call them the devil's breath. While they make the winters warm and pleasant by blowing the worst air pollution out to sea, they can also spawn massive infernos.

The Girl Scouts have launched a major makeover to revitalize their brand and boost their membership, especially among minorities. The group hopes to debunk the image of girl scouting as making crafts, camping and baking cookies.

Lee Myung-bak looks likely to be South Korea's next president after exit polls show he has won a landslide victory, as voters overlook fraud allegations hoping he can revive the economy.

In a recent video, the Olympic skier credits her surgeon with saving her leg from potential amputation.

The news of Kristi Reeves' finalized divorce hit her hard, so she grabbed her shoes and headed for the mountains. On the trail, she encountered a couple.

For the Morning Edition Song Project in which musicians catalog life in the era of COVID-19, Angelica Garcia conjures the four horsemen of the apocalypse in a disquieting piano ballad.

Oregon caves housed evidence of sewn materials from the end of the last Ice Age.

Voters from across the country respond to President Trump's State of the Union speech.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on new music shaping the charts.

An arrest has been made in the incident outside the building where a dozen people were gunned down in 2015 in apparent retaliation for the publication of cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad.