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With more than three dozen deaths attributed to vaping, attention is focused on the health and addiction impacts of e-cigarettes. But e-cigs and disposable vape pods can also harm the environment.

Exceptionally high "king tides," combined with rising seas, have left some Key Largo residents surrounded by water. Getting out of the house for work and daily chores can be a challenge.

The two overnight assaults on Ebola response teams also injured at least six people, according to the World Health Organization. The attacks come at a pivotal time for the fight against the disease.

"I know the time has come to say I am sorry," New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said at a memorial. An initial investigation had blamed pilot error in the crash that killed 257 people.

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that involved both a 300-year-old pirate ship — and a contemporary fight between two powerful forces: states' rights and property rights.

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." That is just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James. He died Sunday in Cambridge, England.

Dozens of anti-government protesters in Iraq have just been killed by government forces. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Associated Press correspondent Samya Kullab about what led to the recent violence.

An article in Oxford's Journal of Environmental Law recommends the move to limit felines' impact on biodiversity. The European Union says it strongly defends free movement rights, including for cats.

When Sandy Baker left her marriage, she and her daughter moved into a hotel. They were homeless for over 2 years, and that, they said, left them with what mattered: Those who loved them the most.

The president had Thanksgiving with troops in Afghanistan, and also signed a law that could sanction China for human rights violations in the Hong Kong protests. And an ICE sting leads to 250 arrests.