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  • After Detroit bankruptcy, is there enough money?
    The pieces are falling into place for Detroit to eventually emerge from bankruptcy with a lot less of its budget-servicing debt. But the city of Detroit’s…
  • Broke And Barred From Bankruptcy, Puerto Rico Seeks Outside Cash
    It's been called the "Greece of the Caribbean." Puerto Rico is more than $72 billion in debt. But because it's not a state, it can't use bankruptcy protection to help it restructure its debt.
  • 'Tropic Death' Presents Life's Horrors In Beautiful Prose
    Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond's 1926 story collection, Tropic Death, is being reissued after decades out of print. Reviewer Oscar Villalon says the stories are "disturbing reminders of how utterly vulnerable we are to the injustices of the heart and of community."
  • American Millennial Missionary In Guinea Isn't Scared Off By Ebola
    Luke Whitworth, 23, came to Guinea from South Carolina 13 months ago. That's when the outbreak there began. His sponsoring group gave him the option to leave — but he's determined to stay.
  • In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, a former Red Cross official says, as many as 40 percent of the organization's emergency vehicles were assigned for public relations purposes. This photo, which shows one of the trucks in Long Island, N.Y., in January 2013, is one example of the many publicity photos taken by the Red Cross.
    Red Cross 'Diverted Assets' During Storms' Aftermath To Focus On Image
    An investigation by NPR and ProPublica reveals how the Red Cross increased its focus on public relations while it struggled to meet basic needs of storm victims.
  • Sourdough loaves made by Fromartz with a bolted white flour from Anson Mills in South Carolina that he says reminded him of the wheat he'd tasted in southern France.
    To Make Bread, Watch The Dough, Not The Recipe
    One man's quest for the perfect loaf took him to Paris, Berlin, California and Kansas. What he learned can't easily be captured in words. It's a feeling in your fingers that comes from experience.
  • Mary J. Blige's <em>The London Sessions</em> is one of Ann Powers' favorite albums of 2014.
    Ann Powers' Top 15 Albums Of 2014
    NPR Music's pop critic, Ann Powers, says each of her favorite albums of 2014 gave her new tools to cope with and learn from the world around her, even as that world crashed in from outside.
  • Captain Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is said to have tucked slow-burning fuses into his beard and lit them on fire before plundering towns for gold and rum.
    Fight Food Waste: Drink Rum, Matey
    Pirates, pokers and alleged demonic origins — the history of rum is filled with raucousness and rebellion. To celebrate National Rum Day, we bring you tales from this drink's past, including its laudable origins as a food waste solution.
  • The oil spill site is reported to be two miles off the coast of Lakeport.
    Diesel fuel spills into Lake Huron after tug and barge sink
    Friday, July 20, 9:06 a.m.The U.S. Coast Guard released a statement this morning declaring that the diesel fuel tanks onboard the sunken dredge, the…
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    Stateside 5.30.2017
    Today we learn who stands to gain if Michigan moves to a part-time legislature. And, new songs from a Michigan bluegrass musician show "there's hope in…
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