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At the University of Maryland, students learn the business and science of raising lambs through the popular Sheep Management class.

TikTok is on trial as U.S. authorities consider a ban. There's just one problem: it's not only an app for silly videos anymore, it is now entwined with our culture.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talk to Washington Post reporter Michelle Boorstein about the Catholic organization that bought mobile phone data to "out" priests who use gay dating apps.

The U.S. Senate voted to block a sweeping criminal justice reform bill passed by local lawmakers in the District of Columbia.

My Powerful Hair is Indigenous author Carole Lindstrom's new children's book. It is inspired by her grandmother, who was forced to cut off her hair to try to remove her from Native culture.

The White House bristles at even the suggestion that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. In his speech Tuesday, President Obama listed the differences between the two conflicts. Gordon Goldstein, author of Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, says though some of the distinctions that Obama made were fair, there are strategic parallels between the two conflicts.

California lawmakers have agreed to create a conservation plan and a fund to help protect the western Joshua Tree, which faces extinction due to climate change.

Cleveland artist Viktor Schreckengost turns 100 today. He is being honored by 100 museums across the country for his work in industrial design, pottery, dinnerware, toys, sculpture and watercolors.

From endless book signings to heated arguments with booksellers, author M.J. Rose knows the value of self-promotion. NPR's Lynn Neary joins Rose on the road for a taste of what it means to be a writer in today's new world of publishing.

President Obama and the Democrats scored another major legislative victory Thursday. The Senate passed a broad bill to overhaul financial regulations. The measure rewrites the rules for Wall Street to try to avoid crises like the 2008 economic meltdown. This time the Democrats got a little help from Republicans.