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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with financial historian Brendan Greeley about President Trump's push to be featured on a new $250 bill.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. John C. Reilly talks about how being a middle child led to his acting career.

On paper, there are ceasefires in place between Israel and the US in Iran, and also in Lebanon, Gaza. On the ground, fighting goes on.

NPR's Short Wave talks about a weakness in a well-known insect repellant, how plants call wasps to their defense and how bigger rewards speed up learning, in mice.

Ebola kills roughly half the people it infects, but that has more to do with the kind of care patients can access, rather than something inherent to the virus itself.

Louisiana's crawfish industry is upended because processing plants can't get guest-worker visas for its seasonal workforce.

Author Soma Mei Sheng Frazier talks about her debut novel “Off The Books." It's about a young Oakland woman who works as an underground chauffeur. Then, Oakland author Carolina Ixta, takes us to Southern California in her new novel "Few Blue Skies." In it a high school student is fighting environmental injustice in her community, and falling in love with her classmate.

Courts are reviewing certain past sentences that do not comport with today’s laws.Jeff Hayden is joined by Assistant D.A. David Angel of Santa Clara, and Mitri Hananiah of the San Mateo County Bar.

The poet and bandleader spoke to KALW Music's Tshego Letsoalo ahead of her performance at The Chapel in San Francisco.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to pause the $1.8 billion fund's creation. The DOJ says the fund is for people who believe they have been persecuted politically.

Mandela House is one of three interim housing programs set to close in Oakland this year.

Bay Area Congresswoman Lateefah Simon helped secure $1,039,000 in federal funding for the Department of Violence Prevention.