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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Rebecca Shaw, chief scientist at the World Wildlife Fund, about the organization's new Living Planet Report that shows a huge drop in global wildlife population.

The U.N. says a third artillery attack has hit a hospital in the war zone in northern Sri Lanka, striking its pediatrics ward and killing several people.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the number of undocumented migrants crossing into the U.S. dropped by 50% in January.

A team of scientists and environmentalists has launched a satellite into space in order to hunt for planet-heating methane emissions.

Alabama lawmakers are set to approve a bill protecting IVF clinics from prosecution. This comes after providers paused services following a state Supreme Court ruling that exposes them to liability.

The Tour de France for women fizzled out less than 10 years after Marianne Martin won it in 1984. Now, she says, "other women can see women racing and they can visualize themselves doing it."

Even in a studio, backed by a symphony orchestra as they survey their long career in pop music, these guys know how to work a room.

Musician Laura Marling faces her younger self as she talks about her new album -- Patterns in Repeat. It was all recorded in her living room when her daughter was an infant.

Canadian officials believe that Younis Tsouli, arrested last year in London for running al-Qaida Web sites, may have been involved in the alleged terrorist plot that was exposed last weekend. Madeleine Brand talks with Evan Kohlmann, author of Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network, about Tsouli's arrest and past activities.

Eighty-year-old Bob Becker became the oldest person ever to complete the grueling Badwater 135 ultramarathon, starting in Death Valley's sweltering heat and covering three mountain ranges.

The book, loosely based on Randy Rainbow's own childhood experiences, is about a fabulously creative elementary school boy who's teased mercilessly for his clothing, his painted nails and his penchant for listening to Broadway tunes.

Two Russian journalists talk about how they had to flee suddenly to Turkey amid the crackdown on press freedoms at home.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews VH1's So Jewtastic, a new documentary about the hipness of Judaism in popular culture.

At heart, it's a debate about how emotionally invested people should be in their work, with quiet quitting as a Rorschach test.

Gallaudet University, the nation's leading liberal arts school for the deaf, has been in a state of crisis since last spring, when the school picked its next president. The choice of a long-time administrator Jane Fernandes set off a series of intense protests by students and faculty. Now, the end of the crisis may be in sight.

After Nirvana ended, Grohl wasn't sure he wanted to continue making music. But, he says, "I realized that music was the one thing that had healed me my entire life." His memoir is The Storyteller.

More than 3,000 students attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in the town of Parkland, Fla., where a shooting occurred on Wednesday. Broward Sheriff's Office says there are 14 victims — but it remains unclear if that means deaths, injuries or both.

Genetic tests can now tell us a lot about our risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. But that doesn't mean people are prepared to receive the information.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Patrick Skinner, an ex-CIA case officer and current Georgia police officer, about the use of the military in quelling protests, and on ways police antagonize protesters.

Imagine what it must be like to be a teacher in the schools around Uvalde, Texas. Following Tuesday's shooting, you have to go back to work, greet your students and try to make them feel safe.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Soviet-born writer Anna Badkhen about the birthplace of humankind and global migration. Her new essay collection is called: Bright Unbearable Reality.

TikTok's top executive will have to defend the app against allegations it shares U.S. users data with the Chinese government at a Thursday hearing, as the government weighs limiting or banning it.

Jiang Rong's life has spanned the history of the People's Republic of China. The 63-year-old writer of the acclaimed novel Wolf Totem is a democracy activist who has spent time in prison, as well as an old-school intellectual in the tradition of the classical scholar. He sees his role as speaking out against wrongdoing and injustice, whatever the cost.

The title character in Blue Jean, the debut feature by writer-director Georgia Oakley, is a lesbian gym teacher on a journey of self acceptance in Margaret Thatcher's England.

Opposing petition drives in Nebraska could present voters with competing choices on abortion. The one with the most votes wins.