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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has not responded publicly to the letter seeking automatic student loan forgiveness for veterans who are permanently disabled.

47 States Call On Betsy Devos To Forgive Student Loans For Disabled Veterans

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"I had one day I worked six hours and made $50. It really wasn't worth it. ... But it doesn't happen that often," says Hilary Gordon, who works as a shopper for the grocery delivery app Instacart in a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. "The other day I worked 11-and-a-half hours and made $265. Great? No. But good."

Why Suburban Moms Are Delivering Your Groceries

After two master's degrees and three children, Hilary Gordon is one of the women who now make up more than half of the contractors at food delivery apps like Instacart. NPR spent a day with her.

Shannon McCarty in her new apartment in Everett, Wash. Shannon was a meth and heroin user, but is in recovery with the help of a police program that connects people who use drugs with services.

Tired Of Being 'Dope Sick,' A Drug User Gets Help From Police To Get Sober

"Just continually putting people in jail, that's not doing anything for them," says an Everett, Wash. police officer who connected with one drug user, Shannon McCarty, and helped her get off drugs.

Emergency workers search through debris from a mobile home park in El Reno, Okla. early Sunday.

Likely Tornado Kills At Least 2 In Oklahoma

The storm struck the city of El Reno late Saturday night, causing severe damage to a motel and mobile home park.

A soldier walks with his family following a 2011 ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas, for soldiers from the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry 3rd Brigade, who returned home from deployment in Iraq.

A U.S. Army Tweet Asking 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Got An Agonizing Response

In response to the May 23 tweet, thousands of veterans and their loved ones shared stories of trauma, depression, illness, sexual assault and suicide.

'Love Starvation/Trombone' And 'Transience' Speak To Past Sans Nostalgia

In their recent releases, Nick Lowe (along with Los Straitjackets) and Wreckless Eric have created new music that connects to old music without maudlin nostalgia or huffy defensiveness.

Storm-damaged homes after a tornado passed through the area the previous evening in Brookville, Ohio.

'Tornado Outbreak' Devastates Ohio Communities With Winds Up To 140 MPH

The dangerous twisters, which began late Monday night, caused considerable damage. Dayton is now under a boil-water advisory.

Sen. Kamala Harris will hold a distinct advantage in the 2020 California primary: she's run and won three statewide elections, and has high name recognition among voters in the state. Harris launched her presidential campaign in Oakland on Jan. 27.

California, Rich In Delegates, Takes On New Importance For Crowded Democratic Field

Fourteen presidential candidates will descend on San Francisco this weekend, underscoring California's new role as a key early primary state.

MacKenzie Bezos, one of the wealthiest women in the world, says she'll give at least half her fortune to charity. She's seen here in April 2018 with her now-former husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

MacKenzie Bezos Pledges To Give More Than Half Of Her Billions To Charity

"We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand," Bezos said as she signed the Giving Pledge.

Quilp, the epitome of evil in Charles Dickens' <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em>, seen here with Little Nell, is a dwarf with the head of a giant and a "few discolored fangs" for teeth. But his most grotesque trait is his trick of drinking "boiling tea without winking" and eating "hard eggs, shell and all."

When Tea Reaches Its Boiling Point In Fiction, So Too May The Story

Across tea-drinking cultures, writers have milked hot tea for all its worth to add a splash of narrative panache to comic or erotic scenes or to build mood, momentum and character.

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