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An early season heat wave is roasting Texas. Spring heat can be particularly dangerous for people's health--here's why.

California's salmon fishing season has been canceled — again. The fish have dwindled as a result of drought, heat waves, agriculture and damming.

NPR's Mia Venkat explains what the internet was obsessed with this week.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with journalist and author Danny Funt about his new book, "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling."

Prosecutors say Rozier and others passed confidential intel to organized crime groups to help wager on NBA games. Billups allegedly participated in a separate scheme involving underground poker games.

It's wedding season, and for some people that means diamonds, and increasingly, lab grown diamonds. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with diamond industry analyst Paul Zimnisky about the diamond market.

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.

Mooresville's public schools open Wednesday, the first among a growing string of districts opting to ignore North Carolina's school calendar law.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss sports.

Winter hits early and hard in the high country of New York's Adirondack Mountains. It also brings wild, spectral beauty.