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The president told an energetic audience he "will not rest" until the city's water is safe to drink. A federal state of emergency has been declared as a result of lead leaching into Flint's water.

The Justice Department warned North Carolina its transgender bill violates the Civil Rights Act. In a letter to the governor, the state is warned it could lose millions of dollars in federal money.

A doctor filed a complaint against a Washington, D.C., hospital, saying that by telling her not to say that she does abortions, the hospital is stigmatizing the procedure. The hospital cites safety.

The six-year deal with the Scrap Yard Dawgs, a team in the National Pro Fastpitch league, is the first million-dollar deal in the league's 13-year history.

"I cannot say the happiness I have," the husband of a woman rescued from the rubble told The Associated Press. He says she is eight months pregnant. The collapse killed some three dozen people.

A year ago, NPR's Kelly McEvers went to rural Indiana and talked with drug addicts at the center of an opioid and HIV epidemic. She returned and found Joy, a nurse who lost everything.

For generations, the day before the Kentucky Derby was unofficially considered "Louisville's Day at the Races," when locals could enjoy Churchill Downs without the huge Derby crowds, high admission prices and general madness. But over the past few years, "Oaks Day" has become popular among out-of-towners who come in early and make a whole weekend of it. Now, locals gather on the Thursday before the Derby.

A Los Angeles jury has reached a verdict in the Grim Sleeper serial murder trial. Lonnie Franklin Jr. is charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

The media didn't create Trump, but that's no defense: They missed his rise and enabled him too.

Only civilians fleeing violence were staying in the targeted camp, activists say. Only the Syrian regime and its allies conduct airstrikes in the area.