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Many Kentucky residents may have to vote somewhere new in this year's elections. That's because dozens of counties have consolidated polling places — a move that's raised concerns about ballot access.

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a large carnivore ecologist and one of the new hosts of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. She's an expert in bears, but can she answer our questions about gummy bears?

AI comes to the animal kingdom: researchers have used advanced facial recognition techniques to track geese and other animals. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on November 2, 2023.)

The war between Israel and Hamas has disrupted a long-standing labor arrangement between employers in Israel and Palestinian workers from the occupied West Bank.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele talk about the Texas Rangers' World Series victory, the series' historically low ratings, and a special play taking the NFL by storm.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, about how a veterinary sedative called Xylazine is worsening the country's opioid epidemic.

Cover your head and don't look up! Naturalists say this is a "mast year" in much of the country, when hardwood trees drop an overabundance of nuts.

Illustrator Edel Rodriguez fled Cuba with his family during the Mariel boatlift in 1980, a story he tells in his new graphic memoir, "Worm." He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about it.

Abortion advocates in Michigan had a major setback this week. Voters enshrined abortion rights in the constitution last November, but figuring out what those rights mean has become a battle.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to analyst Tahani Mustafa about the history of Gaza.