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Fri., Jan. 10: Danny Robinson (left) and Valerie Robinson sift through the rubble of her family's home that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif.

Photos: Southern California wildfires rage on as people assess damage

The fires have forced mass evacuations. Firefighters are struggling to control a patchwork of deadly blazes that have killed at least 10 people and leveled entire communities.

Smoke from fighting billows in the edges of the town of Hama, Syria, Tuesday Dec. 3, 2024.

Syrian opposition forces enter the key city of Hama, in a new blow to Assad's regime

Syrian rebels have entered another major city, in a further blow to President Bashar Assad after they took over Aleppo days earlier.

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.

Scientists await signal from spacecraft after historic close encounter with the sun

To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 03, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee held a hearing on the findings from a fifteen month Republican-led probe of Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic's origins.

Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members of Jan. 6 panel

President Biden said the pardons are not an "acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing" but rather protect individuals from "unjustified and politically motivated prosectutions."

Public needs to rise up to fight 'constitutional crisis,' says Democratic senator

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut worries the U.S. public may not recognize the ongoing "constitutional crisis" if they see Democrats regularly collaborating with Republicans.

A man survived a harrowing ordeal in open water as Hurricane Milton passed nearby, spending the night clinging to a large cooler before being rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew some 30 miles from shore.

'We were ecstatic': Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water

"We couldn't believe it, honestly, that he was OK," a pilot said as he described finding a man who spent the night of Hurricane Milton's landfall 30 miles from land.

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

A rescue team gathers in front of a damaged residential building in Sumy just after a Russian drone strike that destroyed nine apartments and killed 11 people, Jan. 30.

3 years on, here's what to keep an eye on in the Ukraine war — and efforts to end it

Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Amid a stark shift in U.S. policy, Ukrainians want the war to end — but not on Russia's terms.

Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water for fish on the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

People mourn at the grave of flight attendant Hokume Aliyeva during a funeral of the crew members of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 killed in a deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan this week, at the II Alley of Honor in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024.

Azerbaijan's president says crashed jetliner was shot down by Russia unintentionally

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush up" the issue for days.

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