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The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

The price of a gallon of gas is up well over a dollar from where it was a year ago and these swing voters are feeling it.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

A U.S. Senate race in Texas is now set with the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the GOP nomination in a primary runoff Tuesday. He'll face Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.

A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.

Democrats are looking for a path to winning more Congressional seats in the future. One way may be to court more rural voters.

In most school districts, kids take a bus to school. But in the rural Alaska village of South Naknek -- pilot Jon King has been flying kids to school almost every school day for the last four decades.

Next week's primary in California includes a closely watched race between two Democrats in the state's Central Valley competing to unseat GOP Rep. David Valadao.

Changes to U.S. global health funding fall heavily on stigmatized and marginalized populations like sex workers in South Africa, who can no longer access clinics specifically serving them.

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom.