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Today, we continue our week-long series on Asian carp and the Great Lakes.Most of the efforts to keep bighead and silver carp out of the Great Lakes are…

Retired U.S. Gen. Jay Garner sets up office in Baghdad as Iraq's new civil administrator. Garner says his first priority is restoring basic services such as water and electricity. NPR's Melissa Block talks with NPR's Scott Simon in Baghdad.

Postwar Baghdad grinds along without water and electricity, and without work. Restoring power remains a baffling challenge. The conditions make it possible for looting to persist. Yet protesters call for Americans to go home. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

The US Navy’s past and present is on display in Detroit this week.Detroit is just one “Navy Week” stop on a Great Lakes tour commemorating the War of…

They called it the “Black Eden.”From the 1920’s to 60’s, tens of thousands of African Americans poured into the resort town of Idlewild, Michigan. They…

Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died from esophageal cancer in December 2011, chronicled his battle with the disease — his 18 months "of living dyingly" — in Mortality. Critic Heller McAlpin says the tragically posthumous work is full of his pugnacious, ever-bright prose.

by Peter Payette for The Environment ReportFor decades, communities in Michigan have been preserving land with help from the Natural Resources Trust Fund.…

The Michigan State Fair in Detroit was canceled two years ago due to budget cuts. This year there's a new fair, with a new name and location. It's…

Attacks continue against U.S.-led forces in Iraq, injuring American troops in Kirkuk and Baghdad. British forces use tear gas to control a riot in Basra, where protesters decry shortages of water and other necessities. And the FBI takes over a probe of the deadly bombing of Jordan's embassy in Baghdad. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer and NPR's Ivan Watson.

I don’t claim to really know Mitt Romney, who is going to be nominated for president tonight at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. I did,…