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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.

Hear the violinist, celebrated for her beautiful tone, in a surprise gift from a departed composer.

The threat posed to coastal areas by tsunami flooding gained new attention after the Indian Ocean catastrophe that killed 200,000. Now scientists say a huge tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest in 1700 -- and it may happen again.

Modeled after classic Afrobeat bands like Fela Kuti's Africa 70, Brooklyn's Antibalas makes intensely rhythmic music that blends jazz, funk, dub and traditional West African drumming with political messages for an intense sound.

Photographer and filmmaker Gregory Colbert has traveled the world photographing encounters between humans and large animals. His exhibit "Ashes and Snow" has found a similarly distinctive display area. The Nomadic Museum, now in Manhattan, is designed to be portable.

Almost 4,000 young Sudanese fled civil war to reach safety in the United States. A graphic novel, Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan, tells their harrowing stories.