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In this Friday, March 24, 2012, file photo, a man holds elvers, young, translucent eels, in Portland, Maine.

Thousands Of Mainers Vie For 11 Licenses To Fish Baby Eels

More than 3,000 Mainers are vying for one of just 11 new baby eel fishing licenses that Maine will issue this year as it reopens the lucrative fishery.

Hosni Kalaya set fire to himself in the same weeks that Mohamed Bouazizi died from doing so in 2011 in Tunisia. He fears he inspired his half-brother's self-immolation in 2015.

Self-Immolation Rises As Desperate Tunisians Seek Escape From Poverty

When a fruit seller set himself on fire, it helped start a revolution in Tunisia seven years ago. Since then, the suicide method has grown more common, especially among young, unemployed men.

Director of CIA Stansfield Turner, Feb. 4, 1979.

Stansfield Turner, Who Headed CIA Under Carter, Dies At 94

The Navy admiral tapped by President Carter to lead the spy agency conducted a controversial downsizing of risky clandestine operations — a move that angered many in the intelligence community.

Clock Ticks Down Toward A Midnight Government Shutdown

Rachel Martin talks to Marc Short, White House director of legislative affairs, about the chances of a government shutdown Friday night. NPR's Susan Davis weighs in on the conversation.

A demonstrator at a women's march in Jan. 2017.

Baker Makes A Pitch, Women's March Turns One, No Amazon For You: The Short List

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker pitched his newest opioid bill to state lawmakers this week. It calls for dozens of provisions to overhaul treatment,…

Gov. Charlie Baker's proposed increase in education money includes $15 million for school districts that have seen an influx of students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after last year's hurricanes.

In Massachusetts Budget Tease, Gov. Baker Details Local Aid Increases

The annual budget proposal Gov. Charlie Baker plans to file next week will call for a general local aid increase of $37.2 million over this year, and an…

Students who identified as LGBT had more than double the rates of sustained hopelessness compared to heterosexual students. LGBT students also reported high rates of suicide attempts, suicide ideation and self-harm.

Higher Than Average Hopelessness Among Some Springfield, Mass., Students

A new survey shows that eighth grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, are more likely to feel hopeless than their counterparts in the rest of the…

Russian children clamor for food, circa 1941. During World War II, the Nazis sought to implement a "hunger plan" to starve millions from Russia and Eastern Europe.

What Today's Headlines About Famine Get Wrong

Maybe you've heard that world hunger is at crisis levels — and climate change is largely to blame. A new book argues otherwise.

Approval of U.S. leadership fell sharply in President Trump's first year — particularly in Canada, where the approval rating fell from 60 percent to 20 percent. In this photo, protesters demonstrate at a new Trump International hotel in Vancouver last year.

World's Regard For U.S. Leadership Hits Record Low In Gallup Poll

The global approval rating for U.S. leadership fell to 30 percent — lower in President Trump's first year in office than under former President George W. Bush, and a sharp fall from the Obama era.

Daniel Ellsberg Explains Why He Leaked The Pentagon Papers

In 1971, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in the hope that they would help end the Vietnam War. His story is portrayed in the new film The Post. Originally broadcast Dec. 4, 2017.

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