Natalie Escobar

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio will offer live anchored coverage of Monday’s total solar eclipse from The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory in Tupper Lake, N.Y.

The U.S. Constitution requires a president to be 35 or older, but only a lower age limit exists. There has never been an upper one.

AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet captured the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina surfing through a huge wave in a ride that would net an Olympic-record score.

Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on July 29, 2024. Jerome Brouillett / AFP/Getty Images

Natalie Escobar is an assistant editor on the Code Switch team, where she edits the blog and newsletter, runs the social media accounts and leads audience engagement. Before coming to NPR in 2020, Escobar was an assistant editor and editorial fellow at The Atlantic, where she covered family life and education. She also was a ProPublica emerging reporter fellow, where she helped their Illinois bureau do experimental audience engagement through theater workshops. (Really!)

Donald Trump has won the solidly red states of Texas and Ohio, according to race calls from the Associated Press.

Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where multiple injuries were reported following a shooting on Monday.

An MBTA subway car dons googly eyes under its front windshield in Boston.

If you missed the good news that filled 2024, NPR's member stations kept track. Here are some of the stories that made us smile this year.

The remains of a burned home are seen after the home was destroyed by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8.