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The city's water department has outsourced the maintenance of a three-mile levee to a herd of goats.

Legend has it that Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders organized marches at the tables of Paschal's restaurant.

With the sanctions lifted, Iran will be able to export oil, but prices are tumbling, thanks in part to Saudi Arabia flooding the market.

European and Asian companies are expected to flock to Iran now that the U.N. sanctions are lifted. American companies are having to sit on the sidelines because of secondary sanctions, and out of caution in dealing with the Iranians.

Airport workers in New York City, Chicago, Miami and other cities held protests on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. They called for their hourly minimum wages to increase to $15.

Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood is based on a real forest in the English countryside. NPR's Ari Shapiro visits Ashdown Forest with Kathryn Aalto, author of The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben and Scott Horsley break down the claims from Sunday night's Democratic debate. One big area of disagreement was health care.

The number of people with injuries like neck strain who get CT scans in emergency rooms is on the rise. This despite efforts to reduce use of the scans, which increase cancer risk.

There was no big lead-up to his release, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati says: "They just came one morning and said, 'Pack your things.'"

In a special edition of DJ Sessions, we remember one of the founding members of the Eagles, who died yesterday at age 67.