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Migrants fleeing Venezuela sell art made from nearly worthless Venezuelan currency. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Northwestern University's Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez about what happened to the currency.

The famed Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California is under scrutiny after a spike in thoroughbred deaths. Santa Anita hosted its biggest race day of the year this past weekend.

Lee Radzak is retiring this month after 36 years as manager of an iconic northern Minnesota lighthouse. Split Rock on Lake Superior attracts about 2,500 visitors a day during the summer.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: The Truth about Cats and Dogs, Furniture Cast and Lavatory Loudness.

No Republican presidential candidate has claimed the state's 10 Electoral College votes since Richard Nixon in 1972 — the longest blue streak of a state in the country.

Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species.

Some environmentalists say food production needs a fundamental reboot, with crops that stay rooted in the soil for years, like Kernza, a prairie grass. Even General Mills says it likes the idea.

The new Netflix series takes a hard look at the effects of our behavior on the natural world. Series producer Alastair Fothergill says that this is a different, more urgent type of show.

After a second 737 Max jet crashed in less than five months, it took Boeing weeks to speak openly about the role its flight control software may have played. Critics say that's too long.

The actor talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about struggling with typecasting after Happy Days,his family's immigration story and about how he found out in his 30s that he had dyslexia.