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A handy guide to choosing fun and educational media for kids this summer.

Thursday ushered in the first official day of summer, and as if on cue, the Tri-State has plenty to do this weekend to help you kick off the season.

Debate continues on a new North American trade deal, as Trump pushes Canadian officials to sign by Friday. Former Obama administration economic adviser Austan Goolsbee talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR's Scott Simon asks science writer David Quammen about horizontal gene transfer and how it changes how we think about humankind's place in the world. Quammen's new book is The Tangled Tree.

Gillette's new ad campaign is trending on YouTube but has more than twice as many dislikes than likes. Some are threatening a boycott, offended by the company's call for a new kind of masculinity.

Federal regulations for silica dust in coal mines haven't changed in decades. But since an NPR/Frontlinereport into black lung, some are calling for a new response.

Images of the larger-than-life Art Deco statues above Cleveland’s Lorain-Carnegie Bridge are popping up all around the city. One of the latest spots is as a replacement for LeBron’s image on the banner that hangs on the Sherwin Williams building outside Quicken Loans Arena. As the season starts this month, the Cleveland Cavaliers will hang a new banner featuring a mosaic of fan photos in the shape of one of the Guardians of Traffic.

Virginia guitar maker Brian Calhoun devised a strategy game called Chickapig. (It features hybrid animals and pooping cows.) Now he's getting some friends — like Dave Matthews — to spread the word.

Dora the Explorer, the first Nickelodeon show to feature a Latino character as a protagonist, helped the rise of multicultural children's programming in the U.S. This weekend it hits the big screen.

Scientists are looking at a possible link between the mutations in the U.K. and South Africa — and those in a patient in Boston who had living, growing virus in his body for five months.