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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins, head of the America First Policy Institute, to oversee the Department of Agriculture. She has a long history in conservative politics.

We take a look at the history of Easter Monday at the Smithsonian National Zoo and how it became a tradition for Black families in Washington, D.C.

Astronomer Professor Michele Dougherty is the first woman in over 350-year history to be appointed the UK's Astronomer Royal. She'll serve as the official adviser to King Charles III on astronomical matters.

Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.

Public radio personality Ruth Seymour has died at age 88. For 32 years, she was the general manager of KCRW in Los Angeles, one of the most influential radio stations in the country.

Researchers who detected environmental DNA, or eDNA, in two zoos say the technique could one day be used to look for endangered species in remote locations in the wild.

Michele Norris visits again with Hurricane Katrina evacuee Sharon White. We have been checking in with her from time to time as she tries to get her life back to normal. She currently lives in Baton Rouge but is hoping to return to her home in New Orleans next month.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who leads the party's Senate campaign operation, claims "the hour for America is late" in a new outline for his midterm campaign message that leans heavily into culture wars.

A teenager who fled the war in Ukraine is graduating from a junior boarding school in rural New York. His senior year included lessons in skiing and english and a lot of time helping on a farm.