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NPR's Adrian Ma plays the puzzle with North Country Public Radio listener Sarah Baldwin and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Women have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to living longer. They outlive men by about five years. This gender gap is true for many mammals, but a new study shows how human males could narrow it.

With some education and training, a woman in Uganda defies cultural norms and starts up her own coffee business. But she ruffled feathers in the process by purchasing coffee beans only from women farmers.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Andrea Parent-Tibbetts owner of Clover Brook Farm in Hyde Park, New York, about leaping llamas, an event at the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival where animals compete to see who can jump the highest.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Andrea Parent-Tibbetts owner of Clover Brook Farm in Hyde Park, New York, about leaping llamas, an event at the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival where animals compete to see who can jump the highest.

A reporter reflects on two years and two days of war, and the mixed feelings of hope and skepticism now in Israel and Gaza.

NPR's Scott Simon asks ESPN's Michele Steele about who will be in and who will be out of the men's and women's college basketball tourney.

No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound. There's still an effort to attract new residents and businesses there.

The grand final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest takes place on Saturday, May 17, in Basel, Switzerland. It's an annual celebration of melody, rhythm, fabulousness and glitter.

Ten men escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center through a hole in the wall behind a toilet on May 16. Most were captured within days, but Derrick Groves managed to elude authorities until Wednesday.

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

The Pentagon seeks to deploy the National Guard to more cities to quell what the president sees as lawlessness and riots.