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When everyone was trying to escape the flames in Lahaina, Luz Vargas ran toward them: Her son was home alone. Days later she found his body. Sunday would have been his 15th birthday.

In preparing for future fires, Maui doesn't have to look far. States like California have passed wildfire policies to reduce the risk that a community will be destroyed.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen and Coup 53 filmmaker Taghi Amirani about the 70th anniversary of the coup in Iran.

West Virginia University plans to cut its language department and drop all language requirements as it faces a budget deficit. It's the state's largest university.

Rhiannon Giddens has won Grammys, a Pulitzer prize for her opera Omar, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She's composed music for ballet and video games. And her new album is called You're the One.

StoryCorps brings us memories of one of the first sit-ins of the Civil Rights Era, a protest at a drug store in Oklahoma City that was organized by children.

Massachusetts voters approved the Fair Share Amendment in November. It places a 4% tax on incomes above $1 million, in addition to the state's standard income tax of 5%.

While the world focuses on the devastation in West Maui and the destruction of the historic community of Lahaina, another wildfire is still burning in the hills some 25 miles away in Kula.

As people grapple with more than 100 people who died in the Lahaina fire on Maui, they're still trying to understand the loss of priceless artifacts and their connections to the island's ancient past.

As military tensions with China rise, Taiwan's companies are pivoting from civilian manufacturing to defense and weapons.