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Hurricane Matthew brought storm surge flooding and power outages to Georgia as it moved over the coast Friday night. Residents and tourists along the coast were ordered to evacuate.

An Atlantic City casino with Donald Trump's name on it is going out of business. The Trump Taj Mahal is shutting down because it's losing millions of dollars a month.

Urban chickens are a thing, we know, but backyard birds can carry pathogens. And so far this year, 895 people from 48 states have gotten sick, and a few hundred were hospitalized. One person died.

The nation saw an alarming surge in homicides in 2015 — driven largely by hundreds more homicides of black men, who tend to be treated more as perpetrators of violence than as its most likely victims.

Born of a "mistake," these dumplings have become a beloved staple of Italian restaurants in California's Napa Valley. They're packed with cheese, spinach and local Italian-American history.

USAID is airlifting supplies that could help up to 100,000 people, including 40,000 blankets, 20,000 hygiene kits, and nearly 18,700 kitchen sets.

Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute and Adia Harvey Wingfield of Washington University in St. Louis discuss a new study finding a greater racial wage gap in 2015 than in 1979.

3:55 p.m.The rising Tar River is forcing the evacuation of Princeville, North Carolina, a town destroyed in flooding from Hurricane Floyd 17 years…

Mark Rosekind, of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, tells NPR's Scott Simon what's causing a spike in car accidents in the first half of this year and what's being done about it.

The baseball playoffs are underway. Who's winning, who's losing? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the magazine about the Friday and Saturday's games.