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Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of the northeast on Monday. Climate change is fueling more intense rainstorms that drop more water in shorter periods of time.

With cuts to mental health services and the erosion of DEI work on the horizon, public media matters more than ever before. It’s about uncovering challenges, highlighting solutions, and providing a platform for those who don’t get the coverage they deserve from mainstream media.

Alaa Mostafa is an audio journalist and producer based in Oakland, CA. Her work has appeared on This American Life, Reveal with The Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED, AKPM, and within the Oakland Museum of California. Alaa is an alum of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and a former AIR New Voices fellow. She is KALW’s health reporter.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and journalist Tim Weiner about his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.

On Wild Card, guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Celine Song shares a story from her childhood about the early signs that she'd become a movie director.

The squirting cucumber doesn't get its name for nothing. And it's why her supervisor, who studies biomechanics, was so excited about them. Gorges searched for the plant on YouTube, and turned up this David Attenborough video.

The Senate considers the rescissions package that would strip $9.4 billion for public boradcasting and foreign aid.

The judge's decision vacated a rule imposed by the Biden administration earlier this year to keep medical debt from affecting credit scores.

Nominations for the 77th Emmy awards were announced Tuesday. Apple's streaming service did well this year, with Severance and The Studio scoring lots of noms.

Weekly protests outside an immigration court in downtown San Francisco are picking up steam. From our partners at American Community Media, Christopher Alam has more.