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The EPA is updating its most powerful climate policy tool: a single number called the social cost of carbon. The new number is more accurate, but is also raising ethical concerns.

You can say "I wuv u - not" by bestowing your ex's name on a hissing cockroach! NPR's Scott Simon muses on a fundraiser for a Chicago Zoo, and whether the roaches really deserve it.

US employers added over 500 thousand jobs last month, far more than forecasters expected. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than 53 years, and President Biden is taking credit.

You can keep Mr. Muscles cozy, or you can make your own yogurt: using reptile heating pads in a container are a way to ferment foods, sans snake.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with writer DK Nnuro about his debut novel, "What Napoleon Could Not Do," which looks at differences between how African Americans and Black immigrants view the U.S.

Unusually robust job numbers for January, negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, and a preview of Tuesday's State of the Union.

The Biden Administrations has cancelled Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to China, following the appearance of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the US.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, one of the most listened-to francophone pop artists in the world, about her new album, "DNK."

Extreme cold is disrupting weekend plans in Northern New England. In Maine, people are urged to stay indoors. Even the opening of the National Toboggan Championships has been postponed.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Evgeniy Maloletka, an Ukrainian photojournalist, about what it's been like documenting a year of war in his country.