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The climate talks opened Monday in Copenhagen, with more than 190 nations represented. The U.S. and China have pledged some actions already, but negotiators so far haven't even agreed about what the overall deal will look like.

Nobel laureates from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are in Washington to talk about their work and the war in Ukraine.

The U.S. trucking industry is getting more diverse as it battles a driver shortage. One group is working to recruit LGBTQ+ drivers. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on July 22, 2023.)

For two years now, exhibitions of human cadavers have been traveling the country, shown in science museums and other spaces. The shows have been dogged by criticism... and one delicate ethical concern.

Many still view beets as an old-world vegetable, dumped straight from the can onto Grandma's Sunday dinner table or served as borscht. But beneath the beet's unappealing hide is a versatile flesh that can be served hot or cold, pickled, roasted, deep fried, pulverized or eaten raw.

New Century, a subprime lender that was once the second-largest in the industry, has filed for bankruptcy. The company is joining the ranks of many other subprime lenders to crash and burn in the housing market downturn.

President Bush on Tuesday led grieving students, faculty and families in a convocation in Blacksburg, Va., for the 32 people killed Monday by a lone gunman in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. The dead and injured were remembered in speeches and prayers. Seung-Hui Cho shot himself after the rampage. Police are investigating what drove him to his murderous assault.

In coastal Georgia, Hurricane Irma caused far more flooding than expected. Researchers are looking at ways their mistakes there could improve future predictions elsewhere.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has charged a white father and son in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. The arrests follow the release of cellphone video of the February altercation.

Casey Schwartz writes of her reliance on Adderall and her realization that the focus it brought was not genuine. But she leaves readers wanting to hear more on the relationship of attention and love.

Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch prove gifted at providing essential context, including deftly painting a picture of 19th-century America and the prevailing attitudes toward race and politics.

Many Puerto Ricans still live without electricity and basic services, three months after Hurricane Maria. For some, music and dancing are an essential escape from their struggles.

A lawsuit brought by American Airlines against the ticketing site Skiplagged.com is bringing renewed attention to a controversial travel hack that some people have tried in an effort to save money.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Marcus K. Dowling, country music reporter for The Tennessean, on the controversy surrounding Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" song and music video.

Fred Harvey was the Ray Kroc before McDonald's, the J.W. Marriott before Marriott Hotels. A new book by Stephen Fried looks at how Harvey civilized the West with his railroad restaurants and changed America's eating habits.

Haji Zahir, the newly appointed governor of Marjah, is getting a lot of support from civilian and government agencies, which Gen. Stanley McChrystal had dubbed "government in a box." State Department adviser Bay Fang, who is working with the support team, says they are doing everything to ensure the new government is responsive to the people.

Gary Coleman, the child star of the 1970's sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," died Friday after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.

Authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson share the stories behind Hollywood's most beloved songs — from Casablanca's "As Time Goes By" to the melodies from Mary Poppins — in their book The Songs of Hollywood.

The impeachment trial for suspended president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has begun. She is scheduled to testify before the Senate Monday.

The detonation of more than 2,000 tons of explosive material at the Beirut port has damaged as much as half of Lebanon's capital. At least 130 people have been confirmed dead, and 4,000 injured.

Seven years after Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis, the first non-European pontiff is under attack from traditionalists who think he's leading Catholics astray.

As Ukraine claims a strategic victory in a long, grinding counteroffensive, its troops say they need more long-range weapons to fight increasingly entrenched Russian troops.

Blake Butler's new novel, 300,000,000, is not for the squeamish. This portrait of a serial killer and the detective who hunts him will curdle the blood — and possibly the soul — of any reader.

Poet Brian Turner's My Life as a Foreign Country is a lyrical, haunting memoir of his military family, his service in Bosnia and Iraq, and the struggle he faced to adjust to life on the home front.

Moving ably from verse to historical prose, poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz chronicles the life and work of an unsung medical innovator in the exhaustively researched Dr. Mütter's Marvels.