Poet Mary Norbert Korte left her life as a nun in the 1960s to pursue dual passions for beat poetry and the preservation of California's redwood forests. She died in November at age 88.

Catskills comedian Freddie Roman, former dean of The Friars Club, died Saturday at age 85.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Holly Martinez, the executive director of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, about how closing the gender pay gap could help reduce homelessness.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with country music artists Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile about their documentary, "The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile."

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly's conversation with country music artists Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile continues. First they talked about their new documentary, now they talk about their friendship.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rafael Jaime, UCLA graduate student and UAW 2865 president, from the picket line as 48 thousand academic workers walk off the job.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, about redistricting and the impact of new congressional maps on the midterm elections.

Researchers have observed octopuses lobbing silt and shells at each other — and they say in some cases it might be deliberate.

NPR takes a look at Maxwell Alejandro Frost, the first Gen Z member elected to Congress.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Haitian-Canadian author Myriam J.A. Chancy about what's happening in Haiti and a list of books to help make sense of precipitating events.

Vanilla Beane, affectionately known as Washington, D.C.'s Hat Lady, died Sunday at age 103. Her legacy includes her designs and her effect on D.C fashion.

The latest rankings from the Women's Tennis Association are out. Two American women sit at the top of the top four rankings for the first time since Serena and Venus Williams did back in 2010.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly's conversation with country music artists Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile continues. First they talked about their new documentary, now they talk about their friendship.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with country music legend Tanya Tucker and artist Brandi Carlile about their new documentary, "The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile."

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Carol Greenwald, executive producer at GBH Kids, about how her team is formatting the beloved cartoon "Arthur" as a podcast.

A mother-daughter baking duo is responsible for the 6-foot tall "Pan Solo" sculpture that sits outside of the family business, One House Bakery, in Benicia, Calif.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Bloomberg correspondent Michael Bologna about the increasing number of fans catching record-breaking baseballs and the taxes that come with catching a piece of history.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Weihua Li, a data reporter for The Marshall Project, on the FBI's new and incomplete crime report and consequences for the public.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, while he's in California learning about cannabis laws with an eye to studying decriminalization of the substance in his city.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Pauly Denetclaw, correspondent with Indian Country Today, about her reporting on the what it will mean for Indigenous people if Roe v. Wade'is overturned.