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In the 1970s, Gwen Roland decided to live off the land — and water — in the Louisiana swamp. She and her partner lived on a houseboat they built themselves; they had no electricity and no running water. Roland chronicles those years in her book Atchafalaya Houseboat.

During the 1968 Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces surprised U.S. troops with a major assault. Fighting ravaged the former imperial city of Hue, and presaged the futility of the U.S. military effort in Vietnam. The decades since have brought more change.

Pieces of Chicago's history and cultural experiences go on sale Thursday to raise money for city cultural programs. The eBay offerings include an authentic Playboy Bunny costume from the 1960s. NPR's David Schaper reports.

The Energy Department says the United States depends on Africa for 18 percent of its petroleum imports. That percentage is growing rapidly. The biggest African producer is Nigeria. The fight is on in Africa's most populous country to grab a share of the money generated by the energy industry.

Once an itinerant 16-year-old high school dropout, the singer-songwriter wound up in Minneapolis, where he has recorded six full-length albums and started a family. He previews his newest record on Mountain Stage.

A few weeks after Pfc. Jesse Givens was killed in Iraq, his family received a farewell letter from him -- and the son he would never know was born. One year later, Givens' widow seeks to help her young sons remember their father.

The Department of Energy wants to clean up its aging underground tanks of high level nuclear waste. But environmental groups say the agency's plan to empty and seal the tanks isn't safe enough; it leaves behind shallow layers of radioactive sludge. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

NPR's Margot Adler offers an audio postcard from the waters around Manhattan. She took part in a most unusual fishing tournament, testing the waters in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.

Farms were the first targets of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. But since last summer's raids, federal agents have shifted their focus toward urban areas.

A federal grand jury charges a Mississippi man in the 1964 killings of two black men in one of the few remaining unsolved cases from the civil rights era. James Ford Seale pleaded not guilty today in Jackson, Miss. Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, is believed to have been a Klansman.