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A drugs lord's exotic pets got out of control in Colombia — it's the tale of the so-called "cocaine hippos."

Authorities have released the names of some of the victims killed in the mass shooting. Also, new details are emerging about the shooter's background.

Retired federal Judge Michael Luttig says he wouldn't even accept baseball tickets in his years on the bench: "I believe that federal judges should essentially live like priests or saints or monks."

Democrats and Republicans remain far apart going into Tuesday afternoon's debt ceiling meeting at the White House. Congressional leaders from both parties will meet with President Biden.

Phosphogypsum, a byproduct in the fertilizer industry, contains uranium and radium — and as the EPA notes, it also forms radon, "a cancer-causing, radioactive gas."

More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.

Gold prices are soaring. Cue the gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil and efforts to protect the world's largest tropical forest, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.

A new cookbook from America's Test Kitchen offers tips for people with chronic back pain to minimize bending and standing in the kitchen. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on May 6, 2023.)

For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he's written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR's A Martinez.

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.