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Nearly 18 inches of rain has fallen on parts of the Houston area in two days. In the state's biggest city, schools are closed and subdivisions have flooded. More rain is predicted for Tuesday.

The state was considering a bill that would have required transgender students to use the bathrooms of their sex at birth. The sponsor now says she wants to revise it and reintroduce it next year.

To show that the water from Flint, Mich., is safe when filtered, the governor says he'll be drinking it for the next 30 days at home and at work. The city has been grappling with lead contamination.

Can I Eat That? by food critic Joshua David Stein gets young readers curious about their food. And it's fun for adults, too!

The prosecutor, who had previously recommended Liang not serve any jail time, said the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley was "not police brutality." Liang's defense attorney called it a "tragic accident."

Blaming a lack of profitability, UnitedHealth says it will drop out of most health marketplaces insurance exchanges next year. The insurer's first quarter profits in 2016 were $1.6 billion.

The eggplant and peach emoji are standard code for racy thoughts these days, but food has been used for sexual innuendo for centuries. Shakespeare was a pro. (Happy Shakespeare Week!)

A replica of the Palmyra Arch of Triumph, a Syrian monument that was destroyed by the Islamic State, was erected in London's Trafalgar Square Tuesday. It's cut from marble and has been reconstructed using digital scanning techniques.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou about the criminal investigation into the Theranos blood lab.

The last best chance to stop Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton may well be next week, when Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware hold the next-to-last round of primaries.