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They may be half a world away from each other, but both are dealing with the awful effects of lead poisoning.

Many consumers in North America and Europe are willing to pay a premium for nutritious, organic grains. That makes the market ripe for a revival of millennia-old bread wheat, some plant breeders say.

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Beijing Won't Let it Go; Rude Whole Foods; One step closer to the Bro-lympics.

A controversial border fence to keep out migrants who travel to Hungary through Serbia will be finished by the end of August. Opponents say it violates European Union laws, but officials in several member states, including Germany, say it's not their place to decide how to deal with the growing influx of refugees into EU countries that border non-EU countries.

Making and playing with slime has gone from a fun activity to a moneymaking endeavor for many online. Sales of Elmer's, a key slime ingredient, jumped and stores have seen shortages of the glue.

In 2014, Dr. Steven Hatch traveled to Liberia to treat people infected with the Ebola virus. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with him about his new book, Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story.

NPR's Michel Martin takes a peek into the Blue Apron test kitchen and speaks with the company's culinary director, Christopher Sorensen, for ideas on what to prepare this holiday.

The magnitude-7.8 temblor hit north of the capital Katmandu, toppling buildings in the capital. Dozens were also killed in neighboring India, China and Bangladesh.

Wilson told a grand jury in September that Michael Brown punched him twice in the face and "the third one could be fatal if he hit me right." The grand jury declined to charge him in Brown's death.

An NPR team visited the Liberian village of Barkedu to capture the sights and sounds of life after Ebola. They found sorrow, hunger ... and a sense of hope.