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An Iraqi family returns home and tells the story of risking a trip to Greece on a boat that sank, drowning two of their children. But images of people making the trip safely encourage others to try.

Jerky sales are soaring, thanks in part to millennials, who are snacking more than ever. Meat snacks are lightweight, high in nutrition and can travel long distances without spoiling.

Some fast-food franchisees are rethinking putting workers on part-time status to avoid having to provide them with health insurance. The business hassles are exceeding the savings.

Christopher Saucedo lost a brother in the twin towers, and two of his houses were flooded in the storms. He says he hopes his art shows people what it means to lose and how we manage to survive.

Ten years after Gulag Orkestar, the extravagantly arrayed breakthrough album he wrote as a teenager, Condon says he's finally learning how to be subtle.

Monday night's caucuses draw big crowds as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off for the Democratic nomination and Donald Trump tries to hold off his Republican challengers.

The concern is not the virus itself but the cluster of brain-damaged babies born to pregnant women who had been infected with the mosquito-borne disease.

Yosemite is caught in a trademark dispute with an outgoing concessionaire. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Jeremie Kramer who worked at some of the hotels and recreation sites that may change names.

The company hopes to attract millennials, saying the yet-to-be-named stores will "feature a modern streamlined design, innovative technology and a curated selection."

NPR film critic Bob Mondello has been listening to the Star Wars hype train. Here's why he isn't climbing aboard.

People in big, sparsely populated states like Montana rely on air ambulances to get to medical specialists they need. But the lifesaving flights can be hugely expensive and not covered by insurance.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the evolving U.S.-Iran relationship.

Authors John Donvan and Caren Zucker say parents have been "unsung heroes" in spurring more research on autism, and in getting many more kids out of institutions and into schools.

Some land routes are blocked and boats are scarce. As a result, many refugees who just arrived in the African nation of Djibouti are from Yemen's small professional class.

50 years after Harry Nilsson's concept album about a round-headed boy from a land of pointy heads, his son Kiefo and actor Mike Lookinland talk about a new release of the animated film from 1971.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Guillermo Grenier, a sociology professor at Florida International University.

Texas is almost out of one of the drugs it uses for executions and the state says it is exploring all options to deal with the shortage. Manufacturers have stopped selling a number of drugs states use in capital punishment.

The lofty target for the superPAC of not-quite-a-candidate Jeb Bush is one more sign of the cash gusher — and legal gray areas — opened up by recent campaign finance decisions.

The men worked at the tobacco company for years. But after they were laid off, the only jobs they could find were as anti-smoking inspectors for the government. They do their new job with gusto.

ISIS has been destroying Iraq's historic artifacts. Iraqi archaeologist Abdulamir al-Hamdani has asked the White House to help in protecting his country's heritage. He speaks with NPR's Melissa Block.