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More cats and dogs are getting adopted than ever before at the Richmond, Va., government-run animal shelter. The shelter director explains the strategy to reduce euthanasia and boost adoptions.

A Kenyan court has ruled the government must not close the world's largest refugee camp, which houses some 300,000 people, many of them from Somalia.

Columbus has the second-largest Somali community in the country, with more than 45,000 people. Many of them are small business owners, and a majority of…

What happens to our waste (trash, recycling, yard waste) once it's collected? Where does it actually go?

But the agency projects that its checkpoints will screen 100 million more people in 2016 than it did in 2013 — even as its workforce has been reduced by 12 percent over that same time period.

Alabama has hit the trifecta of political scandal. Three top elected officials — one from each branch of government — are embroiled in controversy and could be forced from office.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture, about the significance of putting Tubman on U.S. currency.

Bernie Sanders campaigns in Connecticut ahead of the next set of primaries. Sanders is facing an uphill battle in Tuesday's contests. He needs to win at least 59 percent of pledged delegates if he hopes to overtake his rival Hillary Clinton and win the Democratic nomination. But Sanders and his supporters are vowing to fight on.

Residents of these islands have waged many campaigns against disease-carrying mosquitoes. But there's still not much agreement at public meetings about how the mosquitoes should be controlled.

Beekeepers make money renting out hives to pollinate crops. But in California, thefts are on the rise. That's led to a hive shortage that is driving up demand, costs — and more thefts.