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NPR's Margot Adler travels around Manhattan and learns that residents are adjusting, even though parts of the burough remain dark and transportation is limited two days after the storm.

China, along with Russia, have repeatedly rejected international intervention in the civil war in Syria. But this proposal makes China's commitment to a ceasefire more concrete.

There's no state agency that regulates or maintains levees in the Garden State. But the flooding brought by Sandy will inevitably bring calls for more flood-protection systems.

We've reshaped the United States based on where superPACs and other outside groups spent their money to air political ads aimed at influencing the presidential election. The result? One weirdly telling map.

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, uttering five Korean words that are readily understood. "This is not the kind of sound that Asian elephants normally make, and it's a dead-on match of the speech of his trainers," a researcher says.

Alabama voters decide Tuesday on a measure that would remove Jim Crow-era language from the state constitution. Republican leaders say the language is an embarrassment that deters jobs and investment. But Alabama's black leaders are against the fix, arguing it's a trick to undermine public school funding.

An army of electrical workers is squirming through the tunnels beneath New York City, checking transformers, cables and power systems. And though it'll likely take days to get everything back online, experts say the storm would have damaged aboveground infrastructure even more drastically.

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced Thursday he is endorsing President Obama, in large part because he believes Obama will do a better job addressing climate change. That phenomenon is on the minds of New Yorkers as they struggle to clean up from this week's devastating storm. Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Richard Harris about the science and politics of climate change.

Someone at the Vatican is a fan of James Bond. On Tuesday, the Vatican newspaper ran not one but five articles about the new Bond movie, Skyfall.

The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent in October, while the economy added 171,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's John Ydstie and Tamara Keith about the numbers.