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Zyn pouches are the latest nicotine craze in the world of cigarette substitutes, with over 130 million containers sold in the first quarter of this year. Health experts and lawmakers are concerned.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Francis Lawrence about adapting Stephen King's first completed novel "The Long Walk" into a film, six decades since the story was written.

President Trump became the latest U.S. president to say he wants to kill the penny. Both Republicans and Democrats have tried and failed for decades to get rid of America's one-cent coin.

Hari Kondabolu does make people laugh. But he also makes people think. He’s caught the attention of NPR and done interviews on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He’s a panelist on Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!, and in 2014, The New York Times described him as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.”

When we talk about LGBTQ issues, it’s the T that we often leave out of the discussion. That’s at least in part because the Ts are a minority even inside the community. But are they small in number because they’re small in number – or because it’s a much harder road to take? On this third edition of Queer in the Cape Fear, we’re seeking to do a better job of understanding the T. What does it really mean to be transgender?

Building, rehabilitating, instructing, developing, growing, employing. Those are the promises made by the BRIDGE program, which trains incarcerated young men to fight fires, among other skills. But does it hold true to those promises?

Researchers were shocked to find that the eyeballs of shrimp develop, not based on how deep they live in the ocean, but by the animal's ability to emit light through bioluminescence and the need they have to see the signals from other deep sea animals. In other words, the need to communicate could be a key factor. Dr. Lorian Schweikert also details how their underwater camera captured the first video ever of a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week shifting responsibility for disaster preparations to state and local governments. U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, who represents the state’s 16 westernmost counties, told BPR he “fully supports the decision.”

With the news that President Trump wants to get rid of the penny, we stopped by one coin collecting shop to find out their reaction.