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A new robot is designed to sink sargassum before the stinky seaweed comes ashore. Sargassum can wreck local economies, ecosystems — and even threaten human health, some research suggests.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with DeWanda Wise about her role in "Imaginary." It's about a woman who returns to her childhood home and discovers her imaginary friend is neither imaginary nor friendly.

At the start of the 20th century, only the most privileged could afford to go to college. Today, millions of students pursue higher education, but collectively they owe $1.7 trillion in debt.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to skateboard icon Tony Hawk about his life on the board and his documentary "Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off."

After a storm devastated parts of eastern Spain last week, survivors are becoming impatient at the steady government rescue efforts. On Sunday, it all went down in the town of Paiporta.

Musician Laura Marling is out with a new album called, Patterns in Repeat.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to bassist Robert Trujillo and founding drummer Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica about their latest album and their four decades of music-making.

We visit The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, where a white supremacist mass shooting took place 12 years ago.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David McCloskey, whose new spy versus spy novel Moscow X is about a CIA officer scheming to recruit a Russian intelligence officer — and vice versa.

The loved ones of Sandy Hook shooting victims sued Infowars founder Alex Jones and won. A judge ordered Jones to sell off his assets -- allowing the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy his website.