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Romanians have been welcoming the world's second-largest influx of Ukrainian refugees. It's a marked change from the country's response during Europe's last major migrant crisis.

President Obama's proposal supports NASA's development of a deep-space rocket and designates the Orion crew capsule, part of the Constellation program that had been canceled, as a sort of emergency lifeboat for the space station.

Traffic cameras are big-time money generators for municipalities: In Culver City, Calif., they raise $2 million a year. They're also big-time anger generators for drivers — so much so that several states have banned red-light cameras, and other places are considering it.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has halted commercial and recreational fishing from Louisiana to parts of the Florida Panhandle. President Obama toured the region Sunday, saying he would spare no effort in trying to stop the "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster."

Tennessee officials requested federal aid after a weekend of record-breaking floods that killed at least 18 people in the state. The Cumberland River that has submerged parts of Nashville's historic downtown was expected to start receding Tuesday. As some residents began assessing damage, others continued efforts to rescue people and property.

Rescuers probed the rubble for sounds or movement in a rush to find anyone buried alive more than 48 hours after an earthquake hit western China. Many survivors shiver through a second night outdoors as they waited for tents to arrive in the remote, mountainous region.

The writer Zora Neale Hurston famously penned novels and other short works. But a lesser known fact is that during the Depression, Hurston wrote about some of her favorite destinations in Florida for the Works Progress Administration. Host Michel Martin talks with writer Rebecca Bengal who used Zora Neale Hurston's guide as a way to rediscover some of those places.

As a landmark federal opioid trial nears completion, West Virginia communities are demanding $2.5 billion in compensation. Drug firms say they acted responsibly in shipping millions of pills.

The movie 'Thirteen Lives' tells the story of 12 boys trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand with their soccer coach. But millions of kids are struggling to survive — and don't get the spotlight.

Writer Gabriel Cohen bases his Detective Jack Leightner series in Brooklyn, where he says the neighborhoods "are not static at all. The lines where things are changing create conflict and sometimes create violence," which is reflected in his books.