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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Houston wedding planner Darryl Moore about the creative ways couples are beating the summer heat on their big days.

The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday night that Francine is no longer a hurricane and now is a tropical storm. Francine has sustained winds of 70 mph as it moves across southern Louisiana.

As better-known candidates hunt for votes in Michigan's Republican primary, the first openly gay GOP presidential hopeful is plotting a minor upset. Fred Karger is focusing on one congressional district in the hopes of winning a few delegates to the national convention.

Starting next week, states across the eastern half of the country, from Kansas to Connecticut, will return to above freezing temperatures and finally see some snow melt.

In the Palestinian territory's second-largest city, Khan Younis, thousands have taken shelter on the grounds of Nasser Medical Complex, where staff describe an increasingly desperate situation.

Young people are among the most concerned about climate change, seeing as they're the ones going to inherit the world.

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the U.S. and Israel have been getting into more frequent conflicts with Iran-backed militias around the Middle East.

It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.

A Pentagon investigation has cleared General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. The Pentagon had been looking into whether the general's email correspondence with a Florida socialite was inappropriate and violated military rules. Allen's nomination to become the top commander of NATO is still on hold, however.

The Walking Dead will premiere one of its most anticipated new spinoffs, "The Ones Who Live," on Sunday. Two of the franchise's most popular characters return.