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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Gerry Yandel, executive editor of The Virgin lslands Daily News, about what life is like for those living on the islands more than a month after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

For the second year in a row, Spanish teams Barcelona and Real Madrid paid the highest average salaries of any team in a major sport. But in India, cricketers fare better on average than NFL players.

The Gulf Livestock 1 reportedly capsized in heavy seas near the island of Amami Oshima just as a typhoon was passing through the area. Only one crew member is known to have survived.

Former President George W. Bush declined the ice water and was going to write a check to the ALS charity. But instead, former first lady Laura Bush doused him. Bush then challenged Clinton.

Former President George W. Bush worked with many world leaders while in office. Now, he's unveiling 24 portraits he painted of some of them. The exhibit will be at his new presidential library.

The last time Philadelphia hosted a political convention, it was 1948, and the city got three for one: Republicans, Democrats and the Progressive Party all gathered there. Although the Progressive Party would place last in the election, it sponsored one of the livelier conventions, with singalongs led by Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson. Many of the reforms it advocated were later adopted. Host Jacki Lyden talks with John Hyde, co-author of a biography of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party Nominee. (American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, by John C. Culver and John Hyde, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

Noah talks with Blaine Harden, of the Washington Post, about his new book "A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia." Harden was born in Moses Lake, in eastern Washington state, a town set amidst farmland irrigated by Columbia River water. He went back home to travel the length of the Columbia, to learn about the barges, the hydroelectric dams, and the disappearing salmon. Harden says the salmon of the Columbia are threatened with extinction because of the dams, and a way of life for local Native Americans has been ruined as well. A compromise is possible if the flow schedules on the river are reversed, allowing the baby salmon to get downstream in spring, but electric power rates would go up in the Pacific Northwest. (Published by W.W. Norton and Co.)

As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.

The Trump administration faces protests for its plan to aggressively rein in the EPA, an agency created by President Richard Nixon. But environmental protection was not always so politically divisive.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been caught up in the scandal surrounding former CIA Director David Petraeus. But the Pentagon chief cautioned today that Allen may not have done anything inappropriate.