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Narjis Karimipour was born blind, and when she was 10 years old she lost her hearing. Three years later, she sat down for a StoryCorps conversation with her parents, Sarah Kassim and Mohammad Karimipour, to tell her story in the hopes of helping others struggling with disabilities.

Today is Wildland Firefighters Day!

All but four House and Senate Republicans voted to cut $1.1B from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once the law goes into effect, KALW will lose $400,000 a year.

She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington D.C.'s emergency police commissioner. The National Guard, FBI and other entities are now working to follow President Trump's directive to clean up the nation's capital.

The original Birkin bag — made specifically for the singer and actress Jane Birkin — just sold for more than $10 million at Sotheby's in Paris.

She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Today is Eat Your Beans Day!

President Trump has replaced the grass in the iconic White House Rose Garden with stone. It's the latest of many modifications Trump is making to the White House.

Immigration lawyers say Florida and the Trump administration are violating the rights of detainees held at a Florida detention center officials have dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Dozens of Texas Democratic lawmakers remain scattered across the country. This, as U.S. Senator John Cornyn requests that the FBI steps in to help locate them.

NPR speaks with cellist Camden Shaw and Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate about the Dover Quartet's album "Woodland Songs," featuring a commissioned suite of character studies of animals.