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ICE officers set to deploy to airports as delays mount, border czar Homan confirms - 2026-03-22T13:30:42-04:00
Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents will help the Transportation Security Administration "move those lines" while also enforcing immigration law.

This lab that's determined to discover new drugs isn't where you might expect - 2026-03-22T09:25:30-04:00
A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.

An orthopedic surgeon explains the hand injury that has many MLB players on the bench - 2026-03-22T08:23:11-04:00
Baseball hitters are on a quest for power. But that quest comes at a cost. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas DiLiberti about baseball players suffering hamate injuries.

She cared for her mother for 14 years. She says she'd do it all over again - 2026-03-22T08:23:10-04:00
Kathy Barnes-Lou cared for her mother for 14 years before her death. She learned that caregiving can bring life's purpose into focus, even as it grinds you down.

Democrats who won big in last November's general election are grappling with reality - 2026-03-22T08:09:00-04:00
Some Democrats who were swept into office last November are grappling with the reality of governing. The new leader of Pennsylvania's Lehigh County says urgency is needed.

The Iran war is impacting the global economy, and Asia is particularly vulnerable - 2026-03-22T08:04:34-04:00
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, about how the war on Iran is effecting the global economy.

The effects of the Iran war on environmental and human health, according to an expert - 2026-03-22T08:04:32-04:00
As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.

Politics chat: Trump's mixed messages on the Iran war, the latest on DHS funding - 2026-03-22T08:04:31-04:00
We look at President Trump's mixed messages on the war with Iran, plus the latest on Department of Homeland Security funding, which Congress has frozen over his immigration enforcement policies.

Trump threatens Iran's power plants as war enters fourth week with no end in sight - 2026-03-22T08:04:29-04:00
We have the latest on the U-S and Israeli war on Iran, where in the past 48 hours, Israel has struck one of Iran's nuclear facilities and Iran has responded with strikes in Israel.

The U.S. is a big oil exporter. So why does it import most of the oil it consumes? - 2026-03-22T08:04:28-04:00
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.