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Fifteen years ago, the FDA overhauled its safety rules for fruits and vegetables, hoping to prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness. How's that system working today?

In 1864, Captain Silas Soule of the 1st Colorado Cavalry refused orders to kill innocent Native Americans. He wrote letters about the massacre, which may have changed the course of history.

At South by Southwest, Marvel announced a comic-book giveaway: On Monday and Tuesday, the publisher is offering free downloads of more than 700 of its "No. 1" issues.

Gaza's borders are tightly controlled and most Palestinians can't escape. Some are managing to enter Egypt by paying thousands of dollars to a company with reported ties to Egyptian security services.

The author of the fantasy trilogy The Magicians talks about mentorship and Harry Potter. Then, he trades his magical keyboard for an Atari Centipede trackball in a game all about classic video games.

The new book "The Baby Chase" follows an Arizona couple all the way to India and back, in their quest to have a baby. Host Michel Martin is joined by author Leslie Morgan Steiner and Rhonda Wile, a nurse who hired two surrogates in India to have her children.

In his new book, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis returns to Haiti, but also takes the reader across continents and generations. The 700-page book has been compared to the work of Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Norman Mailer.

As Michigan prioritizes vaccines for the state's most vulnerable populations, some not in that category are complaining that using data that way is unfair. Others see racism in the pushback.

The Lightning kept it close throughout, but Florida takes the home-ice advantage away from Tampa as their first-round NHL series head south to Sunrise for Games 3 and 4.

Gregory Pardlo's new memoir, Air Traffic, chronicles his complicated relationship with his father, a labor organizer who lost his job following the air traffic controllers' 1981 strike.

The city council voted 4-3 to approve a motion to place the stadium issue on the agenda for the meeting — despite not having a draft of the agreement, which is still stuck at the negotiating table.

AdventHealth in Orlando has reactivated its COVID command center. Meantime, omicron has been detected in Tallahassee and the variant has become the dominant strain in Miami-Dade.

After three years of hurricanes barreling up the Gulf of Mexico, battered North Florida residents may feel they are living in a new Florida Hurricane Alley. But experts say there have not been any real changes in hurricane geographic patterns.

People displaced by the LA wildfires found themselves needing help with basic health care — like getting medications lost in the fires. In El Monte, a pop-up health event provided some assistance.

Unlike many cancers, colorectal cancer has become more lethal for people at younger ages. Doctors are sleuthing out why.

In a night of firsts, the Tampa Bay Sun rallied for a 1-all draw after arriving to its renovated riverfront stadium via water taxi as 5,000+ fans watched.

In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the heart of Noepe, the name his people have called the island for centuries.

The "unabashedly sentimental" romantic tearjerker was the highest grossing movie of 1970. Since then it's inspired countless ugly cries — and plenty of parodies, too.

A Martinez speaks with Morgan Neville about his new documentary about the creator of "Saturday Night Live," and how he persuaded the reclusive Lorne Michaels to consent.

Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Chris Murphy about how the Democratic Party rebuilds after its election loss.

Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson, now with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the strained relationship between Canada and the U.S.

Amid reports Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a Venezuelan boat, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine about how Congress is handling oversight of the Pentagon.

Tressie McMillan Cottom worked in enrollment at two for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book is Lower Ed.

Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck has the weight of the world upon him — no friends, an alcoholic father and a brother who has just been injured in Vietnam. But the protagonist of this NPR Backseat Book Club book finds solace in an unlikely place — the pages of Audubon's Birds of America.

President Bush still has two years left in his term, but author Mark Updegrove says what he does after leaving the Oval Office may be just as important to his legacy. In Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House, Updegrove explores what U.S. presidents do after leading the free world.