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A look back at the diverse, exciting and adventure-filled year in Latin Alternative music.

A look back at the diverse, exciting and adventure-filled year in Latin Alternative music.

Gregg Aamot covers Greater MN for MinnPost and joins us from time to time to talk about his work. In this conversation he told us about a recent article…

It sounds like the plot for a terrible horror movie, but the plan to build a rattlesnake colony on an abandoned island in the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts is real. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Tom French of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

A government group recommends elephant hunting resume within limits, and also calls for the animals to be slaughtered for meat used in pet food production.

Eight rhinos died after being relocated to a wildlife reserve in Kenya. Officials and conservationists say the death toll is unprecedented in their efforts to save the animal from extinction.

Snow leopards are no longer on the verge of extinction, a new assessment found. However, the situation is looking dire for five species of ash trees, now listed as "critically endangered."

As China's ban on ivory goes into effect, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to professor George Wittemyer of Colorado State University about the impacts on the global ivory trade and what it might mean for elephant poaching in Africa.

The controversial practice to stop a Senate proposal from being brought to a vote has caused some infighting among Democrats.

Donald Larson is running for Congress in Ohio's 9th District. He describes what it's like to run for the first time as a Republican in the year of Donald Trump.

Rep. Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, announces he is resigning from Congress by June. After his decision became public, Andrea Seabrook spoke the Texas Republican by phone and asked him whether he was backing away from a fight.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, about President Biden's historic nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

When drought drained Lake Powell to its lowest level ever, it exposed a natural canyon wonderland little seen before it was dammed up. A visit to what's been revealed.

An African-American minister in Chicago is traveling the country holding workshops called Pride in the Pews in an effort to make Black churches more welcoming to the LGBTQ community.

Ahead of former president Donald Trump's courthouse appearance on federal charges Tuesday, some on the far right have been calling for violence.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former federal judge J. Michael Luttig about his recent piece in The Atlantic, "The End of Rule of Law in America."

Jaime Rogozinski, a former moderator of the now-famous Reddit forum that sent GameStop stock soaring, saw the chaos coming. For too long, Wall Street has been "an invite-only club," he says.

Harold Levy, the former head of New York City public schools, worked to give all students access to college. "Harold wanted to know us, he wanted to hear us," one student says.

House Armed Services Committee chairman Adam Smith tells NPR that Congress was left in the dark about the hold the White House put on Ukraine aid, but lawmakers eventually got it released.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has a new memoir about her journey to Congress after fleeing civil war in Somalia. She talked with NPR about her life and her hopes for future coronavirus relief measures.