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The infrastructure plan would create jobs in the trades - plumbing, electrical and welding. Some of these jobs are required to go to women. But nationally they only make up 3% of these workers.

Podcast hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael say despite the misogynoir that has plagued the genre, hip-hop is poised for change. "The girls and the gays are running things," Madden says.

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach is released Tuesday, reportedly incorporating many of the things that made Dungeons & Dragons attractive in the decades before computer games.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Linda Jones, co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions, about the expiration of the pandemic expansion of SNAP benefits.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Dan Buettner about parts of the world where it's common for people to live past 100. While they're separated by distance and language, find out what they have in common.

After losing 12 years of her career to the communist blacklist, the actress and director spent decades lying about her age to make up for lost time. Her new memoir recounts her life in Hollywood.

Several dozen tribal radio stations were caught in the crossfire of federal funding cuts this fall. NPR's Frank Langfitt visited one station in Colorado navigating its survival.

More than 10 years of catastrophic hurricanes in the United States has led to an insurance crisis of sorts, especially in hurricane prone states. Florida Storms digital meteorologist Leslie Hudson has more.

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. One study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable.

Rose, who died Sept. 30, was one of MLB's most accomplished players — and one of the most controversial. Rose was banned from the league in 1989 for betting on baseball. Originally broadcast in 2004.

Hillsborough County has opened six comfort stations to help flooding victims get food, water and cleaning supplies. There are also restrooms, showers, laundry rooms and areas to cool off in air conditioning.

Christian villages in southern Lebanon are spending Easter under siege, as the Lebanese Army pulls out of an area where Israel is battling Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militants.

Some of the most pristine ecosystems in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean. They're federally protected, but now, the Trump administration is rolling back some of those protections.

Lefties get a bad rap — they're sometimes called untrustworthy or insincere, and some dubious studies even claim they die young. Author Rik Smits sets out to debunk those claims in a new book, The Puzzle of Left-handedness.

One thing Joe Biden and Donald Trump share: They have no love for Silicon Valley. The Biden administration is expected to be tougher on the tech industry than President Barack Obama was.

NPR's Noel King checks in with Dr. Jamil Madi, a critical care specialist at a hospital in Harlingen, Texas, about current levels of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations.

Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!). Colbert targets race, religion, sports and the American family as well as more mundane topics like breakfast cereal and the Hollywood blacklist.

Books are only things, but writers are individuals. Quentin Crisp, Andy Warhol, Lord Byron — their personalities touched the imagination even more intimately than their work.

From the moment Huckleberry Finn sat on his raft and decided, "All right, then, I'll go to hell," great American books have featured people setting off on their own. Washington, D.C., writer, teacher and musician Will Layman offers three books about rebellion.

In his memoir, Scattershot, David Lovelace chronicles what he calls "the family sickness." Terri Cheney joins the discussion and shares details from Manic, a chronicle of her own struggle with bipolar disorder.

At this time last year, cyclist Floyd Landis was on his way to winning the Tour de France. Today, he continues to fight doping charges and defend his reputation. Landis discusses his new book, Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.

This might sound familiar to parents: "Why is the sky blue? What are eyebrows for?" Kids ask the darnedest things, and author Wendell Jamieson decided he'd find the answers. He discusses his book Father Knows Less or: Can I Cook My Sister?

Michael Eric Dyson discusses why he believes that hip-hop music is one of the most authentic expressions of the black experience. Rap and hip-hop artist Jay-Z wrote the introduction to Dyson's new book, Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop.

Although many people thought the federal health law would reduce the need for free clinics, low-income people with high deductibles and copays still frequent the clinics for routine care.

The political landscape changed with a shooting at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening leaving Americans waking up Sunday with more questions than answers.