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Alligator In Florida Forces Abrupt End To Fishing Trip

For Tommy Lee, 22, a fishing trip in the Everglades almost ended tragically. While reeling in his line, a huge alligator emerged from the water. After a standoff, the gator returned to the water.

When President Biden hosts lawmakers to the Oval Office, like he did here on April 20, the meetings and the seating arrangements are carefully choreographed, with the pandemic in mind.

How The White House Is Reaching Out To Congress As It Seeks A Deal On Infrastructure

President Biden is hosting key lawmakers in the Oval Office all week, hoping to forge an agreement on infrastructure.

Bat Sanctuary

Part two of the two-part Radio Expedition Series, NPR's Chris Joyce visits an abandoned mine in Michigan's upper peninsula where thousands of bats live. Biologists and mine historians have united to protect the mines, which provide the bats a safe habitat in which to hibernate.

Bat Migration

America's forty-four species of bats are losing large caves...their traditional hibernation spots...to recreational spelunkers and tourists. But hundreds of thousands of bats have taken over abandoned copper mines in northern Michigan. In the first part of a two-part National Geographic Radio Expedition series, NPR's Christopher Joyce follows biologists deep into the earth in search of these bat sanctuaries.

A man who is paralyzed was able to type with 95% accuracy just by imagining that he was handwriting letters on a sheet of paper.

Man Who Is Paralyzed Communicates By Imagining Handwriting

By decoding the brain signals involved in handwriting, researchers have allowed a man who is paralyzed to transform his thoughts into words on a computer screen.

Ilmar Gavilán (playing the violin) and Aldo López-Gavilán. (Courtesy)

In New Documentary, Two Musical Brothers Bridge The Divide Between The U.S. And Cuba

"Los Hermanos/The Brothers" documents how brothers Ilmar Gavilán and Aldo López-Gavilán came together after being separated for decades by tensions between the U.S. and Cuba.

French Anger Toward Macron And His Proposed Pension Changes Intensifies

In France, protests and strike actions against the government's plan to restructure the retirement system have continued, with much of the anger focused on President Emmanuel Macron.

Actor Norman Lloyd reflects on his long career at the SAG Foundation Actors Center in Los Angeles in 2015.

Norman Lloyd, Who Got His Acting Start During The New Deal, Dies At 106

Lloyd performed with the Federal Theatre Project in the 1930s and appeared in Trainwreck at age 100. He acted with Charlie Chaplin, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and appeared in dozens of TV shows.

Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. What's the challenge of cracking the tiny yuletide canon?

Why Are There No New Christmas Songs?

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is back at the top of the chart a quarter century after it was first released. So why haven't there been any lasting Christmas songs to take its place?

Customers swarm a COSTCO gas station amid fears of a gas shortage in Richmond, Va., Tuesday. The line at the facility extended around the entire building.

Panic Drives Gas Shortages After Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

Energy Department officials, state governors and local gas station attendants across the Southeast are pleading with motorists to stop hoarding gas as Colonial Pipeline works to restore operations.

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