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HUD says it is releasing more than $8 billion in aid to Puerto Rico. The deadline to do so was in September. The aid is for rebuilding after devastating Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck in 2017.

Winter Olympic sports combine grace, beauty and danger, where athletes defy and even embrace risk. In downhill skiing, a racer has to find confidence amid the terror of a headlong plunge down a mountain.

Living with Mom and/or Dad is more popular than any other form of living arrangement among Americans ages 18-34, the Pew Research Center says.

An online auction promises to sell NSA files to the highest bitcoin bidder. The site is bizarre, but "teaser" files released as a preview have captured the attention of the cybersecurity world.

With 40 percent of the nation's coal, Wyoming is by far the largest coal-producing state. NPR's Michel Martin talks about the future of coal production with energy economist Robert Godby.

The orange vegetable helps us see — but that's different from improving our vision. That said, carrots are part of a diet designed for eye health.

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

The "lunchbox moment" is a pop culture trope in stories about children of immigrants to the U.S. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eaterstaff writer Jaya Saxena about the limits of those storylines.

NPR'S Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Sarah Longwell, publisher of the conservative site The Bulwark, about whether elected officials, who helped to incite Capitol rioters, should be held accountable.

Lucas Mann's Class A combines baseball and sociology in this chronicle of a farm team from a fading Iowa factory town. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Mann "uses the full tool kit of literary nonfiction" in a book that "encompasses nostalgia, hope and failure."