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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during an event to launch the new Tesla Model X Crossover SUV on Sept. 2015 in Fremont, California. The billionaire has a long-time affinity for the letter "X."

Twitter replaces its bird logo with an X as part of Elon Musk's plan for a super app

Since his purchase of the social media platform, Musk has alluded to transforming Twitter into an "everything app" called "X," akin to the WeChat app in China.

An earthen berm made up of dirt and debris blocks the flow of waster from Mexico into the United States in the Tijuana River, June 14, 2022.

Renegade sewage flows still seep across border, but there is progress

Federal officials are working to slow cross-border sewage flows south of San Diego, as a major plan to fix the problems slogs forward.

A man holding an umbrella stands near a fallen tree during stormy weather in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Powerful storms killed 2 people and left more than 1 million customers without power

A severe summer storm system swept from Alabama to New York on Monday, leaving a trail of toppled trees, damaged buildings and transportation headaches in its wake.

'A Dangerous Business' is an entertaining, Poe-inspired murder mystery

In Jane Smiley's latest novel, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," characters Eliza and Jean are determined to figure out who killed their missing colleagues.

Diemiruaye Deniran's magical fantasy "Ojanoma" with have its U.S. debut at Afro Con.

Afro Con returns to Jackie Robinson Family YMCA this weekend

Event focuses on Afrofuturism and provides an educational, entertaining, and informative space for creative thinkers.

NPR's head of programming, Anya Grundmann, is leaving the network at the end of the year.

NPR's podcast and programming chief Anya Grundmann to leave after 30 years

NPR's top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, will leave at the end of the year. She has overseen numerous hits for the network, including Tiny Desk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters on Sept. 29, 2015, in Fremont, Calif.

A brief biography of 'X,' the letter that Elon Musk has plastered everywhere

From X.com to X Corp., the letter X holds "great sentimental value" to billionaire Elon Musk, according to his biographers.

PEPFAR, the U.S. multibillion dollar effort to fight HIV/AIDS, funds organizations such as the Coptic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. PEPFAR, in the cross-hairs of abortion opponents, will likely not be reauthorized, though partners would continue to receive funding.

What's behind the debate to re-authorize PEPFAR, the widely hailed anti-HIV effort?

The program launched by President George W. Bush is credited with saving 25 million lives. Some in Congress want this year's reauthorization tied to language that PEPFAR will not "promote abortion."

Drivers wait in the drive-thru line at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Alhambra, California, on August 30, 2018.

In-N-Out brings 'animal style' to Tennessee with plans to expand further in the U.S.

The iconic burger joint is "double-doubling" down on its business and opening new restaurants in and around Nashville, its first expansion east of Texas.

The Trump Organization's former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, arrives at court Tuesday in New York. The longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud pleaded guilty for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks.

Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months for his role in Trump Organization tax fraud

The company's longtime chief financial officer had pleaded guilty to 15 felonies and testified against the Trump Organization, which was convicted last month and is set to be sentenced on Friday.

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