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Women often bear a heavier burden at times of crisis. Yet they draw on their inner strength to survive — and thrive. NPR photographed and interviewed 19 women over 3 weeks. Here are their stories.

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of $2.8 billion in prizes this year, much of it in small prizes. Street and bar celebrations normally break out with winners singing and dancing.

The event will include an online portion that takes place throughout the weekend.

Fitzpatrick just barely outplayed Will Zalatoris to win his first major golf tournament, winning by one stroke in Massachusetts on Sunday.

Although immigration should be a hot issue in this presidential cycle, the two presumptive nominees are not that different in their proposed policies. Here, NPR looks at the campaigns' top immigration advisers.

Salad for a summer dinner doesn’t have to translate to boring.

Virginia, Villanova, Kansas and Xavier are the tournament's No. 1 seeds. The opening-round games begin on Tuesday with Final Four action set for March 31 and April 2.

Athletic conferences don't make much sense anymore. Commentator Frank Deford remarks on how the Big East conference is no longer as big or as east as it used to be.

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."