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NPR's Fall TV Preview: 19 Shows To Watch Out For

Whether they're watching sitcoms, prime-time dramas or something else altogether, our television and pop culture critics present a guide to the new programs and series coming out soon.

Lyle St. Goddard, 56, believes he's one of the oldest hotshot firefighters in the country.

Elite Wildland Firefighters Are The Pride Of The Blackfeet Reservation

No drinking, no drugs, no tardiness, and they have to run a seven-minute mile. They're the Chief Mountain Hotshots, the all-Native firefighting crew from Montana's Blackfeet Reservation.

Migrants run from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid photojournalists covering the Mexico-U.S. border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018.

US Customs And Border Protection Has Used Tear Gas In 126 Incidents Since 2012

U.S. Customs and Border Protection defended its use of tear gas on hundreds of migrants in Tijuana on Sunday.

Why This Charity Doesn't Want Your Money

Why This Charity Has Stopped Asking For Money

In 2017, No Lean Season raised nearly $12 million to help farmhands in Bangladesh travel to the city to find jobs when fields lay fallow. Now they're saying "no" to donations. What happened?

The Newseum building in 2008, the year it moved into its Washington, D.C., home. On Friday, Johns Hopkins University announced that it is acquiring the building for $372.5 million.

Newseum's Imposing D.C. Home Bought By Johns Hopkins For $372.5 Million

The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approval, represents an ambitious expansion for the Baltimore-based university — and the end of a turbulent era for the journalism museum.

President Donald Trump speaks during an August 2018 fundraiser in Charlotte, N.C. As president, Trump has embraced high dollar fundraising events that he criticized while running for office.

For 2020, Trump Campaign Woos Big Donors Who Spurned It In 2016

The Trump 2020 campaign is making a new effort to bring in fundraising help from establishment Republicans who sat out 2016. It's one of many ways that Trump's re-election bid is different this time.

Florence Machinga, a candidate for the opposition MDC party, looks out the window of her house, which was burned down 10 years ago by an angry mob. The incident was one in a wave of violence carried out against MDC supporters in 2008. Machinga is still slowly rebuilding the home.

Survivors Of Political Violence 'Will Make Sure There's Peace' In Zimbabwe's Election

Survivors of political violence in Zimbabwe are being trained to serve as election monitors in the country's July 30 vote. Past elections have been marred by violence and allegations of rigging.

The Mid-City Rapid 215 bus approaches a stop on University Avenue in San Diego while traveling down a dedicated lane on Park Boulevard on April 16, 2019.

$44 Million Mid-City Bus Rapid Transit Route Is Slower Than Route It Replaced

Federal and local taxes paid $44 million for a bus rapid transit route from San Diego State University to downtown that is slower on average than the route it replaced, according to an inewsource analysis.

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," Defense Department Comptroller David L. Norquist said in announcing the Pentagon's first-ever audit.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2 trillion in assets.

Asylum-seeker Allan Monga, 19, won Maine's Poetry Out Loud competition in March. But he's been barred from the national competition because he's not a citizen or permanent resident.

Maine Asylum-Seeker Fights For His Right To Poetry

Allan Monga won Maine's Poetry Out Loud competition last month, but the NEA barred him from the national stage because of his immigration status. Now he's suing for his right to participate.

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