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The Federal Emergency Management Agency expects 450,000 people to seek help — including over 30,000 needing shelter. But as floodwaters rise, those aren't the only numbers defining the rescue efforts.

Audie Cornish talks to Drew Magary about his new book on parenthood, Someone Could Get Hurt.

Liu is the first American woman to win an individual figure skating gold medal since Sarah Hughes in 2002.

Mexico makes history with its first female president. How an extra $30 a month kept a cancer patient from qualifying for Medicaid.

Kentucky coal helped fuel the state’s prosperity for generations, but production is down, mines are going bankrupt or sitting idle and the state is left…

Jacinda, whose husband is a TSA officer, says her biggest concern is losing her home. "I feel this sneaking anxiety that it all can be gone," she says.

NPR's Melissa Block asks the Washington Post's national political reporter Robert Costa to assess chances of progress toward ending the partial federal government shutdown, now in its 30th day.

A pair of retired physicians, who are progressive activists in New Hampshire, have been friends for over 30 years. But they disagree on whether to support Medicare for All.

NPR's David Greene talks to, Theodore R. Johnson, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, on the political pragmatism of black voters.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard political scientist Maya Sen about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and judicial ideology, following President Trump's criticism of what he says is liberal bias.