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Officials believe a boiler explosion set off the rapid blaze during a shift change at a packaging factory near the Bangladeshi capital. They fear that some missing workers are trapped in the building.

When deadly flooding rains swamped southern Louisiana last month, it destroyed lives and property. And it also caused millions of dollars of damage to the state's agriculture industry.

Host Scott Simon talks about Serena Williams, and what's happening in American League baseball with regular commentator Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and ESPN the magazine.

Tribal members protested the building of the controversial pipeline, near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, because it would cut across burial grounds and threaten the reservation's water supply.

The Democrat said "half" of Trump supporters are in a "basket of deplorables." She said she regrets saying half, but when distrust is this high, comments like that can make it harder to govern.

Texas lost a lengthy legal battle over its voter ID law and had to change its rules. Now the Department of Justice says the state is misleading voters about what those new rules are.

Former legal affairs reporter Dan Slater's new book Wolf Boys tells the true story of two American teenagers recruited to a Mexican drug cartel, and the Texas detective obsessed with capturing them.

The Standing Rock Sioux are at the center of the dispute over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The tribe's chairman, David Archambault, gives his reaction to the latest court and government decisions.

Fifteen years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the remains of 40 percent of the World Trade Center victims have not been identified. Their families have been waiting for advances in DNA technology.

The way animals are transported and slaughtered for the major Muslim holiday has health officials concerned about the threat of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.