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The June edition of the Season Watch Podcast is here! Much like the Season Watch Newsletter, it features plants, animals, and phenomena to look for in six categories: while commuting, while walking, in watery habitats, in open areas, in the forest, and in town.

The May edition of the Season Watch Podcast is here! Much like the Season Watch Newsletter, it features plants, animals, and phenomena to look for in six categories: while commuting, while walking, in watery habitats, in open areas, in the forest, and in town. New this month is a listener Q&A section!

Motel 6 has settled a class-action lawsuit filed after it was found the hotel had given private guest information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The chain agreed to pay $7.6 million.

The Itasca Economic Development Corporation seeks to grow the Itasca County economy through education, research, and outreach that creates business opportunities. To do so, the IEDC organizes events and initiatives around northern Minnesota. Joining Heidi Holtan on the KAXE Morning Show is the President and CEO of the IEDC, Tamara Lowney. Click the "Listen" player above to hear the full conversation

Three Decades after the original "Top Gun", Tom Cruise returns to lead a fresh squadron of Navy fighter pilots in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the Democrats and Republicans may not want Ross Perot or any other 3rd party candidate in the presidential debates...but that's not going to stem the flow of young voters from seeking alternatives to the major parties.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco visited some of the tres chic party's held by Hollywood's gliterati following last night's Oscar ceremonies.

It will likely take three parties to form a government. Two smaller parties — an environmentalist, progressive party and a libertarian party — appear to be banding together to call the shots.

Rep. Greg Laughlin of southeast Texas, a four-term Democrat who became a Republican last year, lost his party's primary last night. House leaders had awarded Laughlin a seat on the Ways and Means committee, and nationally prominent Republicans had campaigned aggressivley for him, but he was beaten by Ron Paul, a former Libertarian candidate for president. Today Democrats were quick to call Laughlin's defeat a sign of things to come for the other four party-switchers in the House. But Republicans say the dynamics of a very individual race were to blame. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

What would you say in a eulogy for Party City? Have you shopped at Party City for memorable costumes, decorations, party favors or classroom awards? NPR wants to hear.

President Yushchenko's party did poorly in Ukraine's weekend elections, apparently coming in third. The pro-Russia party led by Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won the largest number of votes, spurring talk of a coalition of other parties to keep the pro-Russia types out of government.

One member of Congress has apparently lost his bid for re-nomination in yesterday's primary. New York's Michael Forbes, who was elected in the Republican sweep of 1994 and who voted to impeach President Clinton, switched to the Democratic Party last year following an ongoing feud with GOP leaders in Washington. Now it looks as if Forbes has been voted out of office by members of his new party. If the count does not change, Forbes was defeated by Regina Seltzer, a 71-year-old former librarian who raised just 40-thousand-dollars to Forbes' one-point-four million. Beth Fertig from member station WNYC reports on the result, which no one saw coming.

Formed in 1980, the Greens are now the second most popular party in the country. Much of their success, analysts say, has to do with the worsening image of the country's traditional leading parties.

The staff of NPR's Performance Toady offers its top ten CD picks for the music of Aaron Copland.

Unlike the anti-immigration, isolationist nationalist parties splintering the European Union, the Scottish National Party promotes a a "big tent" brand of nationalism.

An Iraqi nuclear scientist who spent years in the Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein has emerged as a top U.N. choice to become prime minister in Iraq's interim government, an Iraqi official says. A moderate Shiite, Hussain al-Shahristani is known for his management skills and has no formal ties to any Iraqi political party. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

Mexico's top two presidential candidates are each claiming victory in the country's highly polarized election -- and their parties have accused one another of election fraud. An official tally of the contest, in which 30 million Mexicans voted, isn't expected for days. Though sharply divided by ideology, leftist Andres Manual Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon are separated by less than one-tenth of one percent.

Commentator Mark Hertsgaard says the Commission on Presidential Debates makes it nearly impossible for any candidate -- except those from the Democratic and Republican parties -- to participate. He says the debates are essential to any candidacy, and exclusionary rules help the two big parties retain their monopoly over the political system.

With a place for its presidential nominee expected on 40 state ballots this fall, the U.S. Taxpayer's Party stands ready to embrace Pat Buchanan and any other Christian conservatives left unsatisfied by the Republican National Convention next week. NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the party's origins and tenets.