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After Hurricane Irma hits Florida, Alabama is next up. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Republican Gov. Kay Ivey about the state's preparations, and what's in store for its residents.

The documentary Breaking2 follows three elite runners as they attempt to break one of the most famous barriers in sports — maintaining 26.2 four-minute, 34-second miles.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is cancelling her trip to the United Nations General Assembly next week. The de facto ruler of Myanmar and one-time democracy icon is facing widespread criticism for not stopping atrocities against a minority Muslim population.

Colin Warner served 20 years for a murder he didn't commit. A childhood friend fought tirelessly to get him exonerated. The story was featured on This American Life and is now the focus of a new film.

As America prepares for the eclipse on Aug. 21, here are some basic facts about the phenomenon.

Brendan Novak is an opinion editor at the University of Virginia student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. He wrote a column in July saying the alt-right protest in Charlottesville, Va., should be allowed to go on. After last weekend's rally turned violent, he says he was wrong.

The Houston Astros won one of the wildest World Series games ever Wednesday night — to even the series against the LA Dodgers. The game went into extra innings with both teams slugging home runs.

Irish playwright Duncan Macmillan's latest work follows an actress who goes into rehab after coming unhinged onstage. It's an unsentimental take on addiction and recovery that offers no easy answers.

A comparison of two memory training methods often used by scientists found that one was twice as good as the other. But neither succeeded in turning people into cognitive superstars.

After the firing of Venezuela's public prosecutor, Luisa Ortega, on Sunday under the newly instituted National Constituent Assembly, NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with Reuters correspondent Alexandra Ulmer for the latest from Venezuela.

NPR's David Greene talks to media critic and blogger Alexey Kovalev, who writes a blog called "The Noodle Remover" in which he exposes Russian propaganda.

The recovery of the bald eagle is bad news for herons, loons and other rare birds. Their numbers are being decimated by eagles who prey upon them.