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Hoop Dreams: Wheelchair Basketball Is Changing Lives In Afghanistan

The head of the Red Cross orthopedic program wasn't sure a basketball team was a good idea. The players proved him wrong.

In Fighting Abuse By Members Of Catholic Church Clergy, Victim Sees Resistance To Change

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses the Catholic Church's response to its sexual abuse scandal with Marie Collins, who recently resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Eyes come in all sizes. These belong to a domestic cat (from left), an owl and an octopus. The Comparative Ocular Pathology Laboratory of Wisconsin has 56,000 specimens in its collection â including 6,000 from more exotic species.

'One Of A Kind' Collection Of Animal Eyeballs Aids Research On Vision Problems

Most of the 56,000 eyes sent to the little lab in Wisconsin come from vets who want help diagnosing dogs, cats and horses. But the repository also has eyes from sloths, elephant seals and dragonflies.

Wild horses graze at the Doñana National Park, in the Guadalquivir delta, in southern Spain. Last year, UNESCO threatened to put Doñana on its so-called 'Danger List' of World Heritage Sites where wildlife or conservation are at risk.

Drought Threatens Crops, Wildlife Along Spain's Guadalquivir River Delta

As they drill more wells to water crops, drought-stricken farmers in southwest Spain confront environmentalists in Doñana National Park, a migratory bird refuge that's lost 80 percent of its aquifer.

On Saturday Brazilian Federal Police arrested Luiz Carlos da Rocha — who they call their most wanted drug trafficker.

Elusive 'Drug Baron' Of Brazil Nabbed

Luiz Carlos da Rocha earned the nickname White Head because he lived like a "ghost," say police, evading capture for close to three decades, thanks in part to facial plastic surgeries.

While the Ganges is India's most worshipped body of water, it is also the dirtiest.

Will Giving The Ganges Human Rights Protect The Polluted River?

A court in India declared its holiest river is entitled to the same rights as a person that would include the right to sue polluters. Still, many think the divine waters are unimpacted by pollution.

A Trump administration commission is investigating voter fraud nationwide.

N.C. To Give Trump's Panel Publicly Available Voter Data

The N.C. State Board of Elections says it will provide voting data to a special White House commission hunting for voter fraud. But amid concerns over...

Road Trip Playlist: Your Selections For This Fourth Of July Weekend

Here are your favorite tunes that you submitted as the best road trip travel music to survive this busy Fourth of July travel weekend.

German and Cameroonian kids were part of an experiment based on the classic "marshmallow test": Put a single treat before a child but tell the child if he or she waits, say, 10 minutes, a second treat will be given.

Want To Teach Your Kids Self-Control? Ask A Cameroonian Farmer

The "marshmallow test" is a famous experiment for studying kids' self-control. For the first time, a psychologist gave the test to kids outside Western culture. And they crushed it.

Fireworks explode over the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol on July 4, 2015.

Americans Say Civility Has Worsened Under Trump; Trust In Institutions Down

Ahead of July Fourth celebrations, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans believe civility between the two parties has gotten worse since November 2016.

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