A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK faces severe cuts to its staff and news department.

A federal bankruptcy court judge said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.

A federal judge is gearing up to release hundreds of people arrested and detained in Chicago as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the city.

The government shutdown is over, but airports are still getting back up to speed, after reductions in air traffic controllers led to thousands of flight delays and cancellations around the country.

For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala in India, and they sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.

Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are expecting border patrol agents to arrive in the city in coming days for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

And on Apple TV, a touching and surprisingly funny new documentary about the poet Andrea Gibson and their struggle with cancer.

Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of earlier cinema, nothing about this film feels derivative or secondhand.

Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered unethical today. Her book is Chamber Divers. Originally broadcast April, 10 2024.