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How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays."

A grieving man hired to kill invasive goats on a remote island finds out the job is much more than he bargained for: NPR's Scott Simon talks to Jonathan Miles about his new novel, "Eradication."

Didymosphenia geminata — didymo for short — also has another, much less scientific, nickname: rock snot. It seems to be spreading in Michigan waterways.

What started 20 years ago as an experiment with one corgi in one Lansing classroom has blossomed into a statewide nonprofit organization.

An ACL tear would keep almost any other athlete from competing -- but not Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old superstar skier who is determined to cap off an incredible comeback from retirement with one last shot at an Olympic medal.

Trump got elected promising to usher in a crypto revolution. More than a year later, bitcoin's price has come tumbling down. What happened?

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Julia Loktev's documentary follows independent journalists covering the invasion of Ukraine. In Fear and Fury, historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits Bernhard Goetz's shooting of four Black teens.

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

On this day in 1976, Detroiter Sheila Young became the first American to win three medals in one Winter Olympics. In 1994, satellite images showed Lake Superior completely frozen over. In 2017, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Education by a historic tie-breaking vote.