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NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant break down the latest in Major League Baseball playoffs, the WNBA finals and a new hockey season.

President Biden has issued an executive order blocking drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean. It's the largest such move in history, but is almost guaranteed to be challenged under the incoming Trump administration.

In northern California, a group of volunteers spend every night from late fall through winter as crossing guards–escorting migrating salamanders across a rural road.

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

Radio stations at historically Black colleges and universities have always played a special role in connecting the schools to their communities. A new effort is underway to preserve the rich history and the programming these stations produced that documents the Black experience from the days of reel-to-reel recorders and 8-tracks to MP3s.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

Lawmakers will have to authorize additional borrowing to pay the government's bills, but there's no reason it has to be done right away — except for politics.

The state accuses the ride-hailing apps of flouting a labor law by classifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees.

Security in New Orleans will be tight this week as the city gets ready to host the Super Bowl following the New Years Day truck attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens.

President Trump and Elon Musk claim the Biden administration abandoned two astronauts in space. But the publicly available evidence suggests a different story.