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The Mendocino Complex Fire, the biggest in the state's history, now covers 457 square miles. Officials previously estimated Aug. 15 for its containment, but now say it won't be until Sept. 1.

Firefighters continue to battle blazes in California. NPR's David Greene talks with Ventura County Fire Captain Steve Kaufmann about how crews are holding up.

The gap between black and white homeownership rates has widened in recent decades. Baltimore is a majority black city, but research shows it has a gap of 31 percent, mirroring the national average.

For decades, Oran Z collected everything he could about black America, from racist tchotchkes to wax figures of Malcolm X, displaying them in his own museum. Now, his life's work is in jeopardy.

If a Democrat wins an Ohio special election, it would be the latest sign of alarm for Republicans ahead of November's midterm election. Progressives hope for more upset wins Tuesday night.

Civil rights lawyers won a ruling that Orleans Parish judges cannot impose fines on defendants without holding a "neutral forum" to learn about their ability to pay.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with LeRoy Westerling, climate and wildfire science specialist at the University of California, Merced, about President Trump and Gov. Jerry Brown's, Calif., comments on worsening wildfires.

Angela Merkel was dubbed Germany's "climate chancellor" for ditching nuclear power. But centuries-old villages are being bulldozed to make way for open-pit brown coal mines.

Parts of California have been consumed by wildfires in recent weeks, and blazes making up the Mendocino Complex Fire have grown to be larger than the Carr Fire that dominated last week's headlines.

There are 18 fires blazing in California, and officials say this year the wildfires have spread faster and burned more land earlier in the fire season than usual.