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University of Virginia historians say tumult isn't unexpected in the first year of a new administration. But there are questions about whether the Trump administration is prepared to handle crises.

We humans think we don't have a very good sense of smell. But psychologist Alexandra Horowitz says dogs can show us how to train our noses so they give us a window into a secret world.

She loves him. He loves her. But she loves indoor toilets even more. And he is not a fan. Can they find happiness? The plot of Toilet: A Love Story addresses a very real issue in rural India.

Unable to fix on a tone, the series "is trying so hard not to be so many things, it isn't fully any one thing," says critic Eric Deggans, who calls it "the strangest misfire of the fall TV season."

Irma is the strongest hurricane the National Hurricane Center has ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

David Greene talks to Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that opposes abortion, about the Supreme Court decision to strike down restrictions on abortion in Texas.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Stuart Stevens, a former strategist for Mitt Romney, whose new novel, The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear, tells the story of a neck-and-neck Republican primary campaign that ends up at a brokered convention.

The U.S. plans to take in at least 10,000 refugees but only about 1,300 have been resettled. Steve Inskeep talks to Anne Richard, assistant secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration.

NPR's Lynn Neary speaks with Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention about whether Republican evangelical voters will coalesce around Donald Trump now that he is the de facto GOP nominee.

Iranians are hoping the recent election of more reformers to parliament will help improve the economy.