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Tin City "top camp." The long-range radar station sits on a bluff 2,275 feet above the Bering Strait, 48 miles from the Russian mainland.

How Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska's Military Radar Stations

At the farthest edge of North America, across the Bering Strait from Russia, U.S. military radar stations are threatened by the consequences of climate change.

Bill Conway (left) and Matt Saincome (right) collected their favorite articles from their satirical website The Hard Times for a new book.

The Satire Continues With 'The Hard Times: The First 40 Years'

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Matt Saincome and Bill Conway, co-founders of the satirical punk rock news website The Hard Times, about their new book.

An Afghan woman addicted to drugs looks out from her hut on the outskirts of Herat, in western Afghanistan.

Female Heads Of Household (And Hair) Reveal Afghanistan's Drug Use

A new study of drug use in Afghanistan, relying on information from female heads of households and confirmed by lab tests, shows that 1 in 20 Afghans are using prescription or illicit drugs.

Newly Discovered Beetle Named For Greta Thunberg: Nelloptodes Gretae

The London Natural History Museum has named a species of beetle after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to honor her contribution to raising awareness of environmental issues.

Audit Finds Wealth Of Problems With Oregon's Child Welfare Office

An audit from Oregon's Secretary of State takes aim at every aspect of a critical agency responsible for ensuring the safety of neglected and abused children.

CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb headed up the agency's secret MK-ULTRA program, which was charged with developing a mind control drug that could be weaponized against enemies.

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'

Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies.

Dave Chappelle accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. PBS will air a television special of the ceremony in January.

'The Best Part Of The First Amendment': Dave Chappelle Accepts Mark Twain Prize

Sarah Silverman, Tiffany Haddish and Jon Stewart were among the comedians who honored Chappelle as he received the annual American humor award in a music-filled ceremony at the Kennedy Center.

'Burn It Down' Diagnoses, Analyzes The State Of American Women's Anger

The anthology demonstrates that American women are just now at the starting line of exploring and understanding their anger; it's more about how they live with anger than about what makes them angry.

After regaining control of his number, Gregg Bennett says he received this automatic text message from the AT&T store in Boston that he believes was used by the SIM-swappers.

'SIM-Swap' Scams Expose Risks Of Using Phones For Secondary I.D.

Security experts say our growing reliance on cell phones to help confirm our identity online is motivating "SIM-swap" scams to highjack our numbers.

Former classmates Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown reconnected at StoryCorps, in Birmingham, Ala., earlier this month, where they talked about their school integrating for the first time.

Their School Integrated But Racial Divisions Remained: 'We Missed Knowing Each Other'

Eli Brown, who's black, and Natalie Guice Adams, who's white, were classmates when their Louisiana school integrated 50 years ago. "Our lives were so intertwined, but so separate," Adams said.

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