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An estimated 45,000 acres are burning in Fresno County, where more than 200 people were rescued overnight as military helicopters plucked the stranded from a reservoir in Sierra National Forest.

Like all events these days, this year's prime-time Emmy Awards were virtual, with host Jimmy Kimmel and nominees at home or isolated elsewhere with cameras.

The new host of A Prairie Home Companion has fronted the popular bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek — so naturally, we asked him about the much derided Canadian band Nickelback.

Leah Weiss' debut novel — set in a remote Appalachian town — has a strong sense of place and a richly drawn cast of characters, all with their own voices, stories and interconnected relationships.

Jordanians often say they are trapped between two fires -- Israeli-Palestinian violence on their western border and the chaos in Iraq to the east. NPR's Deborah Amos continues a five-part series on how the Iraq war has affected neighboring countries.

No one seems to know how the pasta ended up in Old Bridge Township. Workers there removed the pasta and got rid of the garbage near the creek. One local called the clean up: Mission Impastable.

The new CBS show about two very mismatched investigative partners plays like a comedy. The characters are complicated and surprising, and the dialogue is crisp and quick. It's "a lot of fun to watch."

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist said a 12-day excavation yielded “several mastodon bones,” primarily from the skull. Mastodons are distant cousins of elephants.

A convicted man's fate hangs on whether he committed a murder on land belonging to Native Americans or to Oklahoma. David Greene talks to James Floyd, principal chief of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

Sunday night's Emmy Awards, which featured neither a large crowd nor a red carpet, managed to achieve a charming intimacy as Watchmen, Schitt's Creek and Succession all won major awards.