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  • Kids Create Mobile Apps In the Classroom
    Some of the best new digital apps are coming from the youngest tech innovators. Middle school students Xavier Manning and Ciara Chase created apps that make their community better: from improving garbage collection to finding missing teens. Guest host Celeste Headlee talk to the students, and their guidance counselor Carletta Hurt.
  • Rose Wins U.S. Open, Mickelson Loses Again
    Jason Rose, 32, has won the U.S. Open golf tournament. David Greene talks to Christine Brennan, sport commentator for USA Today, about Rose, who is the first Englishman to win the U.S. Open in 43 years. Phil Mickelson has come in second numerous times.
  • The sun sets over the Manhattan skyline during a major power outage affecting a large part of the Northeastern United States and Canada on Aug. 14, 2003. Ten years later, some improvements have been made to the grid to prevent another large-scale blackout.
    10 Years After The Blackout, How Has The Power Grid Changed?
    Sagging power lines and computer glitches led to a power outage that left 50 million people across the Northeast U.S. and part of Canada in darkness on Aug. 14, 2003. New sensors have been installed, and operator training and computer systems have been upgraded. But is that enough to prevent another massive blackout?
  • Sen. Graham To Announce In June If He's Joining GOP Presidential Race
    Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was in Iowa over the weekend for the state GOP's annual Lincoln Day Dinner. In all, 11 official or likely presidential hopefuls were there.
  • Kurdish peshmerga fighters keep watch during the battle with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Mosul on Jan. 21.
    Under ISIS, Life In Mosul Takes A Turn For The Bleak
    The militants have held Iraq's second largest city since June. Now, local Sunni residents are weary of ISIS, there are signs of strain within their ranks, and it's almost impossible to flee.
  • Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller speaks to the media Sunday in Detroit, apologizing for the scandal that has plunged the German auto giant into crisis.
    'We Didn't Lie,' Volkswagen CEO Says Of Emissions Scandal
    Speaking with NPR, Matthias Mueller blamed the problem on a misunderstanding of U.S. law and said the company doesn't have an ethics problem. Less than a day later, he asked to clarify those remarks.
  • Workers sort potatoes in the field, collecting small and large ones in different buckets. Each bucket weighs 30 pounds or so. A worker will shoulder that bucket and dump it into a flatbed truck 400 to 500 times a day. It's a daily load of 6 or 7 tons of sweet potatoes.
    Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The Fields
    More than half of America's sweet potatoes were lifted by hand from the soil of North Carolina. It's some of the most back-breaking farm work to be found, and migrant laborers do most of it.
  • About 50 percent of the vegetables available today are tomatoes and potatoes, according to <a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail.aspx?chartId=53769&ref=collection&embed=True&widgetId=37373">new USDA data</a>. Lettuce is the third most available single vegetable. Legumes and all other vegetables make up 41 percent of what's available.
    The U.S. Doesn't Have Enough Of The Vegetables We're Supposed To Eat
    The government's dietary guidelines recommend that adults consume 2.5 to 3 cups of vegetables a day, But USDA researchers found that only 1.7 cups per person are available.
  • Luliang's planned "Liquor City" has run short of funding. Workers have yet to finish this replica of the Great Wall, which is supposed to surround a massive factory complex producing <em>baijiu</em>, an often expensive Chinese hard liquor.
    China's White Elephants: Ghost Cities, Lonely Airports, Desolate Factories
    China's economic growth is slowing and misallocation of resources is making things worse. In one city in recession, the new airport is mostly empty and plans for a giant liquor factory have stalled.
  • Calif. Congressman Pushes Cuba To Extradite Man Who Hijacked Plane In 1971
    In 1971, three hijackers took over TWA Flight 106 and diverted the plane to Cuba. One of the passengers on the flight was Jerry McNerney, who is now a congressman from California. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to McNerney about his push to extradite the last surviving hijacker from Cuba.
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