Amirhosein Khorgooi
/
ISNA via AP
U.S. threats erupt into attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran retaliates against U.S. targets in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan in the first exchange of fire since July 29.
Getty Images
/
Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR
Prakash Mathema
/
AFP via Getty Images
Richard E. Aaron
/
Redferns
Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.
Richard E. Aaron/Redferns
/
Getty Images
Escambia County Supervisor of Elections
D.C. Reeves will continue to be Mayor of Pensacola after winning a crowded race Tuesday night, and Escambia County voters chose to return to an elected school superintendent.
Conlan Taylor/University of West
Sam Navarro
/
The Miami Herald
A new report from the Florida Policy Institute finds Amendment 3 could put hundreds of millions of dollars in public hospital funding at risk. FPI estimates Florida's public hospital districts and health systems could lose $323 million over the next three years.
-
Annie Lowrey explores the administrative burdens people face applying for government benefits. It's not just about wasted time: "When the government treats us like this, we don't trust it," she says. -
He said he wrote his retirement letter after the World Cup final in July, but waited to publish it because his father was facing health issues that eventually claimed his life. -
A group of the country's private sector power producers says Nepali authorities lost crucial time in rescuing hundreds of people trapped in hydropower tunnels. -
The U.S. and Venezuela have entered into an oil deal. And, NPR spent two years tracking heat-related deaths and found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat more than the official counts show. -
Several people are missing or unaccounted for after severe flash flooding in the Grand Canyon on Saturday caused significant damage.
