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A Southern California wildfire has destroyed more than 100 structures, mostly homes, in less than two days, fire officials said Thursday as raging winds were forecast to ease.

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.

The Mountain Fire, northwest of Los Angeles, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee as forecasters warned of the potential for “extreme and life-threatening” blazes.

Here seven counties to watch — one in each swing state — that might give some idea how the race is going and why one candidate or the other won:

A recent legal challenge by Republicans in Georgia is one of many expected from both parties around the country this election season.

Both parties are making a last-minute push to get voters to the polls in this key Sun Belt swing state.

Here at NPR, we rely on the Associated Press for our election results. The news agency doesn't make projections, but rather declarations based on math.

About 10,000 people a week come to visit the White House. But until recently, they got a public tour that hadn't changed in decades.

The Massachusetts AG is cracking down on a company collecting on "zombie second mortgages" — old loans that homeowners thought were dead but rise from the grave. People are losing houses over them.

The Sudanese city of Omdurman lives in the shadow of war, facing daily shelling and battered medical services. But some people are trying to eke out a return to life, however precarious.