The Navajo Generating Station is shutting down, creating a ripple effect across the region, from the families left searching for jobs to the Grand Canyon where its absence may mean improvements to air quality. Utility reporter Ryan Randazzo has been covering the generating station and what will be left in its wake.

Tonight, a dozen Democratic presidential candidates will stand on stage near Columbus, Ohio in an attempt to attract support for their campaigns.

Reporter Susie Armitage explores fake laughter in its natural habitat — comedy open mics. We hear about how up-and-coming comics learn to tell real laughter from fake, and how our evolutionary past explains that ability, along with our tendency to chuckle when things aren’t remotely funny.

Some Arizona mine workers walked off the job Monday. This comes after they voted overwhelmingly to strike against unfair labor practices. About 2,000 hourly workers at five Asarco locations in Arizona and Texas voted for the strike on Friday, according to the United Steelworkers Union.

Twelve candidates took the stage Tuesday for October's Democratic primary debate. Read context and analysis from NPR reporters.

Military police in southern Mexico stopped and forced back a caravan of several hundred migrants — mostly from Haiti and African countries — who were attempting to reach the U.S. by foot over the weekend.

Acting Director William Perry Pendley said relocating the Bureau will bring employees closer to the lands they manage. Former BLM staff and environmentalists say it’s designed to get experienced people to quit.
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The state-imposed moratorium on electricity shut-offs ends Tuesday. People who could not afford their electric bills over the hot summer will now have to begin repaying those bills — although not all at once.

The acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, recently reappointed, has been a controversial choice to lead the agency.