San Diego Rhino Finds A New Home In Tanzania
A rhinoceros born and raised in San Diego is getting used to a new home in Tanzania. The eastern black rhino is one of about 740 of the critically endangered animals left alive, and he recently...
View ArticleOpinion: A Very Winning Play?
The most remarkable play of this college football season may have already occurred. Last Saturday, in the first quarter of the game between the North Texas Mean Green and the Arkansas Razorbacks,...
View ArticleOverflowing Hog Lagoons Raise Environmental Concerns In North Carolina
With the full extent of the damage done by Hurricane Florence still being assessed, environmentalists and health officials are expressing concern over the pink shaded ponds on hog farms that have...
View ArticleWyoming Reopens Dormant Clergy Sex Abuse Case
Following the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report detailing decades of sexual abuse by clergy, there has been a nationwide call for action and accountability. But in many states prosecutors...
View ArticleVA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose...
It took more than 10 minutes for paramedics to arrive after a housekeeper found a man collapsed on the floor of a bathroom in a Boston Veteran Affairs building. The paramedics immediately administered...
View Article'Rafiki': The Lesbian Love Story That Kenya Banned And Then Unbanned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_-ucSaFpU Even in the middle of the day, in middle of the week, the theater was completely packed. Hundreds had come to watch Rafiki , a movie about two young Kenyan...
View Article'The Planets' At 100: A Listener's Guide To Holst's Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7uEyyNIT4 One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets , by Gustav Holst , premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite,...
View ArticleOpinion: Christine Blasey Ford's Moving Testimony
I think a lot of people might have felt a jolt in their souls when Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that one of the most vivid, indelible memories she has of the night she says...
View ArticleBuffy Sainte-Marie's Authorized Biography Serves As A 'Map Of Hope'
Buffy Sainte-Marie , native Canadian singer-songwriter, social activist and member of the Cree First Nation, is now in her 70s and has co-authored the first and only authorized biography that tells her...
View ArticleA Top Impressionist, Melissa Villaseñor Is Finding Her Own Voice On 'SNL'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ-Darot-is In her stand-up comedy, Melissa Villaseñor often begins her shows with a warning. "I hope you know what you're getting into," she tells an audience at this...
View ArticleWATCH: 'Extremely Rare' 2-Headed Snake Stuns Social Media, Charms Scientists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ1jnbIX8wA The venomous fangs of a copperhead snake are one thing. But the recent sighting of a rare two-headed snake in Northern Virginia is alarming — and mesmerizing...
View ArticleAt 94, Mike Nussbaum Is The Oldest Working Stage Actor In Show Biz
Before Mike Nussbaum started acting professionally in his 40s, he was trying to make a living as an exterminator. "I was acting since I was 9 years old ... but I was doing community theater for many...
View ArticleAfter One Year Of Headlines, #MeToo Is Everywhere
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the reporting, in The New York Times and The New Yorker , that led to the fall of movie producer Harvey Weinstein. From that point on, the hashtag #MeToo was...
View ArticleHeather Morgan Is Ready To Share Her 'Borrowed Heart'
Heather Morgan has written songs for some of the biggest names in country music — Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Brett Eldredge just to name a few. She's the writer behind Eldredge's " Beat of the...
View ArticleChina Reshapes The Vital Mekong River To Power Its Expansion
Chinese tourists account for more visitors to Thailand — and much of Southeast Asia — than from any other country. The Thai village of Sob Ruak, at the heart of the Golden Triangle region where...
View ArticleOne Band's Key Instrument: Wheels
Some musicians arrive at their gigs in a tricked out tour bus. Others, if they're lucky, in a limo. But there's a popular band based in downtown Los Angeles that relies on a lower-key, low-carbon form...
View ArticleA Veteran Finds Relief Through Fashion: 'It Was So Much About Finding My Peace'
StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative records stories from members of the U.S. military and their families. With tattooed arms and a well-worn leather jacket, Duane Topping looks like the kind of guy...
View Article'Hold Your Breath,' American Flat Track Racing Mounts A Comeback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAFXWUr-sec Flat track is the oldest form of motorcycle racing in the U.S., on dirt tracks, stretching back to the early 1900s. The sport, rooted in the country's...
View ArticleAlice Walker Is For Oakland, Human Imperfection And The Children
Alice Walker has a new collection of poems about issues of the world, and those in her own backyard. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of the The Color Purple , The Temple of my...
View ArticleOpinion: Donald Trump 'Fell In Love' With Kim Jong Un
In the crush of urgent news, some astounding events can almost slip past. At a rally in West Virginia last Saturday, President Trump told the crowd about feelings he has developed for Kim Jong Un....
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