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What trophy can be said to await the speaker or her party at game's end? Their case has not penetrated the popular membrane enough to supply the two-thirds vote required for conviction in the Senate.

The world's tallest active geyser is Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park. It's been on a real eruption streak lately and 2019 saw the most recorded eruptions in a calendar year.

The percentage of female farmers is climbing — slowly, according to federal figures. But those numbers don't take into account the many new roles women are filling on multigenerational family farms.

In London, two women cyclists who train in Idaho plan to vie for medals — in very different events. Kristin Armstrong races the clock in a skinsuit in the time trial, while mountain biker Georgia Gould combines speed with technical prowess to navigate rocky descents and dirt trails.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rita Bourbon, who survived a mudslide in her Santa Barbara, Calif., home in January. This week, she evacuated for the fifth time since then, and talks about how she and her neighbors have been coping.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Rita Bourbon, who survived the California mudslides in her home, but sadly found her neighbor's body in her backyard.

A tied Virginia legislative contest was decided by a drawing on Thursday, after a brief legal fight. Coin flips, drawing cards and throwing dice decide ties around the U.S.

Four wildfires in Ventura and Los Angeles counties threatened more than 12,000 homes and other buildings and shut down more than 200 schools. No deaths have been confirmed.

The death of a woman in a car crash in Ventura County is attributed to a fire. The Thomas Fire is still growing as it spreads into Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles.

The European Union's inability to agree on how to manage migration has turned some of Greece's Aegean islands into squalid dumping grounds for asylum seekers.