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The Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle is considered endangered. The zoo is the first accredited organization in North America to hatch and raise the species that's native to South Asia.

The starting pay for teachers increases by $2,367, while the minimum wage for teachers' aides is now $15 an hour.

So far, more than 321,000 voters in Hillsborough County have requested mail-in ballots.

The additional aid includes $50 million in emergency refugee and migration funds and $50 million in humanitarian assistance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

To celebrate its 125th anniversary, librarians at the Brooklyn Public Library counted down the 125 most borrowed books in the library's history.

Planked salmon has long been a regular menu item in the Pacific Northwest, and its popularity has now spread to the lower states. There's no easier way to impress guests than to grill fish on a wooden plank, which yields a delightful, smoky sweetness.

The embattled president of Spain's soccer federation has left his job. A furor arose after he kissed a star player on the mouth after the Women's World Cup final.

Authorities have forecast the most destructive wildfire season during the approaching Southern Hemisphere summer in Australia's populous southeast since the fires of 2019-20 that killed 33 people.

The "Giving What We Can" campaign urges members to donate 10 percent of their incomes to effective charities. Over many years, the group's calculators suggest, such giving could improve far more lives than you might imagine.

Friends and classmates were on hand at Tampa International Airport to welcome the seventh-grader back home.

The plan, presented by developer Darryl Shaw, would free space in the Ybor Citry historic district while offering the sheriff's office a much larger location near the Brandon mall.

The lawsuit over a deal to combine the two largest U.S. supermarkets came just a day after it was blocked in both federal and Washington state courts.

President Trump thanked National Guard soldiers and police officers involved in his crackdown on what he has described as rampant crime in Washington, D.C.

In a letter to families, the district announced it was withdrawing the proposal following backlash from parents.

Guitarist Sean Shibe pushes his instrument to the limit in new music written for him by Thomas Adès, and softens the vibe with intimate pieces by Bach, Mompou and the eccentric street musician Moondog.

Beach House and Mitski and Spoon, oh my! Here are the tracks public radio is spinning over and over this year.

The revolving door at No. 10 Downing Street keeps turning. Steve Bannon faces sentencing for defying the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena. Interest rates throw cold water on the once-hot housing market.

Elizabeth Neumann resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in 2020. She says the Trump administration ignored the threat — and fanned the flames — of violent domestic extremism.

Washington, D.C., teens get into the spirit of historical figures and tell visitors what the portraits miss. In one instance, a student imagines a private talk between Richard Nixon and his wife.

The songs we love from the first half of the year span a wide emotional and musical range, from wild percussive romps to raw pleas for empathy to Beyoncé's command to leave it all on the dance floor.

NPR's A Martínez talks to FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about the extent of the storm's damage across the nation. Historic flooding due to Ida inundated the East Coast — killing several people.

A panel of radio hosts brings you some of the latest songs from Fast Romantics, Low, Potty Mouth, Ural Thomas, Kasey Chambers, The Bohicas and more.

The CDC says you can end isolation after five days. But emerging research shows with omicron, many people could be infectious for several days past that. So how do you determine if you're good to go?

The Indianapolis Star's story about an anonymous child rape victim from Ohio who crossed state lines to get an abortion became a political lightning rod. Now a man has been arraigned for the rape.

This past week, two literary revisions came to light. In penning his parting speech to the Continental Army, George Washington originally described it as his "final farewell," but later crossed out the word "final." And a new annotated version of The Cat in the Hat shows how Dr. Seuss revised his children's classic as he worked. Willard Spiegelman, an English professor at Southern Methodist University, explains how redacted manuscripts help literary critics understand texts.