The Latest Science This week in science: the power of a nap, planet birth and how wildfires affect water NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires stop burning. Regina G. Barber Arts & Life These drag artists know how to turn climate activism into a joyful blowout In the Bay Area, a number of drag artists have started incorporating climate action into their performances. They say the art form is a natural vehicle for the message, given its roots in activism. Ezra Romero Law & Courts A look at today's Supreme Court decisions The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders. Nina Totenberg Law & Courts SCOTUS says Parents can opt kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ characters. What's next? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ+ themes are used. Gabriel J. Sánchez National People in Minnesota say goodbye to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and husband Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will be buried Saturday as the public still grapples with the aftermath of the shocking political assassination a couple weeks ago. Peter Cox Business Microsoft Windows' iconic blue screen of death is being retired It usually happens to your computer right in the middle of something important: The dreaded Microsoft Windows blue error screen. Now Microsoft is retiring the blue screen of death for a new color. Jeanette Woods Music How Steve Aoki laces EDM into every genre imaginable EDM mega-star Steve Aoki continues to break genre boundaries with his new album HiROQUEST 3: Paragon. Mia Venkat Rwanda and DRC sign a U.S.-brokered peace deal, but questions remain Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa. Michele Kelemen Politics Trump's high pressure week President Trump said he has had a "big week" between Supreme Court rulings, a ceasefire in Iran and a new NATO pledge. But a couple major promises remain unmet. Tamara Keith Europe Ukraine is using speedboats as part of its defense against Russian drones Ukraine tries to shield its cities from near-nightly Russian drone attacks using air defense systems and snipers in trucks on the ground – and, in the Black Sea, gunners on speedboats. Joanna Kakissis Prev 843 of 1648 Next Sponsored
Science This week in science: the power of a nap, planet birth and how wildfires affect water NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires stop burning. Regina G. Barber
Arts & Life These drag artists know how to turn climate activism into a joyful blowout In the Bay Area, a number of drag artists have started incorporating climate action into their performances. They say the art form is a natural vehicle for the message, given its roots in activism. Ezra Romero
Law & Courts A look at today's Supreme Court decisions The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders. Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts SCOTUS says Parents can opt kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ characters. What's next? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ+ themes are used. Gabriel J. Sánchez
National People in Minnesota say goodbye to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and husband Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will be buried Saturday as the public still grapples with the aftermath of the shocking political assassination a couple weeks ago. Peter Cox
Business Microsoft Windows' iconic blue screen of death is being retired It usually happens to your computer right in the middle of something important: The dreaded Microsoft Windows blue error screen. Now Microsoft is retiring the blue screen of death for a new color. Jeanette Woods
Music How Steve Aoki laces EDM into every genre imaginable EDM mega-star Steve Aoki continues to break genre boundaries with his new album HiROQUEST 3: Paragon. Mia Venkat
Rwanda and DRC sign a U.S.-brokered peace deal, but questions remain Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa. Michele Kelemen
Politics Trump's high pressure week President Trump said he has had a "big week" between Supreme Court rulings, a ceasefire in Iran and a new NATO pledge. But a couple major promises remain unmet. Tamara Keith
Europe Ukraine is using speedboats as part of its defense against Russian drones Ukraine tries to shield its cities from near-nightly Russian drone attacks using air defense systems and snipers in trucks on the ground – and, in the Black Sea, gunners on speedboats. Joanna Kakissis