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Catherine Russell: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.

Just in time for Valentine's Day: potato perfume

The Idaho Potato commission is launching a limited-edition scent: A potato perfume designed to smell like a fresh batch of french fries.

A koala joey named Humphrey is comforted by his mother, Willow, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in March 2021. Australia's government has declared koalas endangered in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.

Koalas are now officially an endangered species in parts of eastern Australia

Australia's government cited the impacts of drought, bush fires and deforestation. The koala population dropped a reported 30% from 2018 to 2021.

COVID mandate protests in Canada are starting to affect U.S. automakers

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Michelle Krebs, executive analyst at Cox Automotive, about how the Canadian trucker protests could impact the auto industry — in addition to previous supply chain issues.

Wyverne Flatt, who is fighting to keep his pot-bellied pig Ellie as an emotional support animal, poses for a photograph at his home in Canajoharie, N.Y.

A man in upstate New York is fighting to keep his emotional support pig

Wyverne Flatt says his 110-pound potbellied pig Ellie is "family." Officials in his village of Canajoharie see it very differently. To them, the pig is a farm animal Flatt is harboring illegally.

Maggie the female koala climbs a tree with her joey at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 1, 2011. (Rob Griffith/AP/File)

Koalas are now an endangered species after Australia's devastating bushfires

Conservation groups say the Australian government has not done enough to protect the marsupial from climate change, habitat loss and bushfires.

Week in politics: Is the Biden administration falling behind on COVID-19?

Blue state governors began to relax mask mandates before any new COVID-19 guidance from the Biden administration.

The telescope's primary mirror is made of 18 separate hexagonal segments. Now that the telescope is in space, mission managers need to perfectly align them so the segments work as one giant mirror.

The first images from NASA's new space telescope show how it's coming into focus

The James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first starlight, but its 18 mirror segments aren't yet perfectly aligned. As a result, the pictures it's sending back now aren't exactly cosmic eye candy.

Tensions over the hijab shuts down schools in southern India

Protests turned violent in the state of Karnataka after some high school students were not allowed to wear their headscarves in the classroom.

Autherine Lucy Foster (center), the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, waves as the university awarded her an honorary doctorate during a commencement ceremony, on May 3, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all

The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.

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