What the length of raccoon snouts has to do with domestication A new study suggests that urban raccoons are developing slightly shorter snouts than their rural counterparts. Gabrielle Healy
How Minnesota became a hub for Somali immigrants in the U.S. Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there. Joe Hernandez
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies. Alina Edwards
No icy reception for Seattle's new professional women's hockey team Soundside producer (and Seattle Torrent season ticket holder) Jason Burrows sits down with Libby Denkmann to talk about how the PWHL season is shaping up for the local team ahead of tonight's game vs the New York Sirens Libby Denkmann
Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards At a White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars. Camila Domonoske
CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it. Pien Huang
Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. forces with use of Signal A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings. Tom Bowman
Check your cheese: Shredded and grated varieties are recalled in Washington, nationwide The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses. Rachel Treisman
Did the Trump administration commit a war crime in its attack on a Venezuelan boat? Washington Post reporter Alex Horton talks about the Sept. 2 U.S. military strike on a boat with alleged "narco terrorists," in which a second strike was ordered to kill two survivors in the water. Terry Gross
