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My mom passed down her love of horror to me — and a big lesson about courage

It took me years to fully realize why my mother loved her spooky books so much. Those horror stories gave my mother the courage to leave her abuser.

The lobby of the new multiplex movie theater before afternoon screenings in Srinagar, on Oct. 1.

Cinemas have reopened in Kashmir after 2 decades — but few moviegoers are showing up

The cinemas, shut down after threats from separatist militants, reopened last month. Moviegoers pass through an Indian police checkpoint and are frisked at the theater entrance for bombs and weapons.

People walk near the remains of burned homes after Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City on Oct. 31, 2012. Over 50 homes were reportedly destroyed in a fire during the storm.

A decade after Sandy, hurricane flood maps reveal New York's climate future

National Hurricane Center data for New York City shows development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

Olha Abakumova, an opera singer from western Ukraine, came to the U.S. with her daughter. (Her husband was not able to migrate.) Olha brought her most treasured sheet music for Ukrainian arias. "They connect me with my motherland, culture and my roots," she says. "When I'm singing, I see pictures in front of my eyes," she says. "The words and music move through me and take me back to Ukraine."

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.

Eleonora Ghioldi's family photo sits next to a candle.

A photographer documents her personal journey with breast cancer

An Argentinian photographer documented her experience during her breast cancer treatment, reflecting on the impact of the diagnosis for womanhood and her connection to photography.

Miles Hatfield at his Kentucky home, which he had to abandon after it was flooded by runoff from an old coal mine.

How big coal companies avoid cleaning up their messes

A Bloomberg News/NPR investigation found that large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.

An aerial view of the BR-319 highway where it meets the Igapó Açu River in São Sebastião, Brazil, on Sept. 24. The community is a stopping point for travelers and tourists.

A Brazilian road project cuts through the Amazon, paving the way to vast deforestation

Plans to pave Brazil's highway BR-319 through the Amazon rainforest have raised alarm from environmental groups.

Tucker Bubacz, a 17-year-old senior, climbs into the cab of a semi truck just outside Williamsport High School in Williamsport, Md. on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers

The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million drivers over the next decade. One idea that's gained some traction: Bring in younger drivers, starting in high school.

One journalist's memoir of rehabilitation is being banned in Florida state prisons.

A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons

Keri Blakinger, a reporter with The Marshall Project, received word this week that the Florida state prison system placed her book, Corrections in Ink, on a temporary ban.

Advocates for some survivors of abuse in prison are asking for their freedom and preparing petitions under a program known as compassionate release.

Advocates seek compassionate release for women sexually abused while incarcerated

The women were sexually abused while incarcerated in federal prison in Dublin, California. The issue is part of a hearing Friday before the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Houston's Minute Maid Park is ready for the World Series which gets underway Friday. The Astros are taking on the Philadelphia Phillies in the best-of-seven series.

The World Series begins with upstart Philly taking on Houston, the tainted juggernaut

It's the fourth World Series for the Houston Astros since 2017. They're tangling with the Philadelphia Phillies who made an unlikely playoff run to reach their first Series since 2009.

Dry Cleaning. Front, center: Florence Shaw. Rear, from left: Guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard and drummer Nick Buxton.

Florence Shaw of the group Dry Cleaning is a very different kind of rock star

Dry Cleaning is a post-punk band with a frontwoman who prefers not to sing. Instead, she intones avant-garde stories spiked with unexpected non-sequiturs.

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