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The historian's trilogy, The Problem of Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among others. More than that, though, a colleague says Davis' work "shook up the field of history."

NPR's Michel Martin talks to a representative from the U.S. Coast Guard, Captain Kevin D. Oditt, about the how the search and rescue efforts are going in the city of Houston.

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon has been without safe drinking water since late May, and some people don't have any running water at all.

Mail service and Social Security checks won't be interrupted, but national parks and small business loans will see some temporary changes.

Avalanche forecasters in Colorado say it's going to be a bad year. They're predicting the highest danger level for snow slides since they began forecasting in 1973.

Water temperatures between Alaska and California have risen by 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers say the warming could trigger a series of problems in the marine food chain.

The six-part series centers around members of the Defoe family — high-end lawyers specializing in marital issues whose own private lives are as furtive and messy as the cases they're handling.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Daniel Byman, senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the status of ISIS operations in Syria.

Conway built a career playing goofballs who rarely took center stage. On The Carol Burnett Show, he developed a reputation for sidesplitting improvisations that cracked everybody up.

Campaign finance lawyers believe the request to Ukraine's president that he investigate Joe Biden and his family broke the law. But the FEC lacks a quorum, and the Justice Department sees no crime.