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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Andrea Parent-Tibbetts owner of Clover Brook Farm in Hyde Park, New York, about leaping llamas, an event at the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival where animals compete to see who can jump the highest.

Advocates for cancer research and resources put aside political differences to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The government shutdown goes on and House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in a Democratic representative-elect. President Trump thinks he has momentum to get a Russia-Ukraine peace deal done.

Residents of Lanier, Indiana are disturbed, amused or bored by an emailed sex survey. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Robyn Ryle about her collection of short stories, "Sex of the Midwest."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison.

Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular.

Childhood friends Ben Bridwell and Sam Beam used to share mixtapes of their favorite songs. Now they've made a cover album together, "Making Good Time." They talk to NPR's Scott Simon.

The more than 2,000 officers on the force missed their first full paycheck Oct. 10, leaving them to go without pay at a moment when the officials they protect face growing threats and violence.

When the last clinic offering abortion in the Upper Peninsula closed, a local urgent care started offering abortion pills to help fill the gap. Now it could be a national model for a new kind of abortion access.

Republicans are pressuring Democrats to vote to open the federal government before negotiating subsidies for health care. A Democrat in a vulnerable district in Michigan says no, as do most of the Members of Congress in her party.