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New York City's mayor named its first "rat czar" to tackle the city's rat problem. What is scientifically most effective for tackling an overabundance of rats — and does New York City's plan align?

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Larry Demeritte, the first Black trainer to participate in the Kentucky Derby since 1989.

A similar hearing last year brought extraordinary moments, including a retired intelligence officer alleging that the U.S. government has recovered nonhuman "biologics" from crash sites.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the origins of baobab trees, lizard-inspired construction, and why outside play is beneficial for kids' eyesight.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about shark migration, why woodpeckers are "metalheads," and how the brain interprets the word "not."

Hosts of NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about newly-discovered gravitational waves, a robot designed with inspiration from nature and why Orcas might be attacking boats near the European coast.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of the Short Wave podcast about peanut allergies, potentially unsafe poop levels at beaches, and how to keep pets safe in the heat.

With former President Donald Trump sitting out the first GOP debate in Milwaukee, candidates had a chance to stand out. But Trump offered his own counter programming in a one-on-one interview.

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.

Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a Union general arrived in Texas, accompanied by 2,000 troops, and delivered the news that all enslaved Black people in the state were free. That was June 19, 1865, and on its one-year anniversary, the very first Juneteenth celebrations took place there.