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As the United Nations meets to discuss high-seas biodiversity, scientists and activists say that while a fishing ban could profoundly help protect sea life, it may also be impossible to enforce.

New Bern, a city of about 30,000 residents, has seen significant storm surge flooding as the rivers overflowed their banks and swept into town. Resident Sarah Risty-Davis talks to NPR's Rachel Martin.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper about how the state is responding to the hurricane.

There are five swift water rescue teams working the area, assisted by the Cajun Navy volunteer rescue group.

Fifty nominated books now remain in contention for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature — and, in a fresh twist to the annual slate, translated literature.

The Senate Judiciary committee is slated to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court next week. He has denied an allegation of sexual misconduct from more than 30 years ago.

"We are depleting volumes of water that took hundreds, thousands of years to store. Sooner or later it will run out," says Mexico City's outgoing water system director.

The Turtles All The Way Down author says OCD "starts out with one little thought, and then slowly that becomes the only thought that you're able to have." Originally broadcast Oct. 19, 2017.

As of Saturday night local time, at least three people had been killed and at least 42 landslides had occurred.

The girls were ages 10 and 11 and lived in Somalia, which has the highest rate of FGM in the world.