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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Ned Toll and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Listener Harriet Bicksler of Mechanicsburg, Penn., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Shannon Bond.

Friday night's jackpot was already a whopping $1.35 billion, but since there again was no winner the next one could break the $1.537 billion record set in 2018.

The zoo in Tennessee asked fans to pick their favorite name from four options. Forty thousand people from around the world voted, and the zoo went with Kipekee — the Swahili word for unique.

Someone in Florida won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, ending a stretch of lottery futility that had stretched for nearly four months.

Dan Kenney looks back at a disaster recovery effort that started 77 years ago that could give hope to people suffering today.

Residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories were ordered to evacuate Wednesday night as wildfires neared the city of 20,000 people.

The country has not accepted all offers of aid, including from the U.S. and France, saying "a lack of coordination in such cases would be counterproductive."

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with NPR One listener Mary Butler and puzzle master Will Shortz.

When Grace Mariani graduated from Seton Hall University this week, the school president had a special gift for Justin, her service dog.